Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751251AbVL3LWE (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:22:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751252AbVL3LWE (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:22:04 -0500 Received: from ns.firmix.at ([62.141.48.66]:29644 "EHLO ns.firmix.at") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751251AbVL3LWC (ORCPT ); Fri, 30 Dec 2005 06:22:02 -0500 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Make sysenter support optional From: Bernd Petrovitsch To: Ulrich Drepper Cc: Matt Mackall , akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <43B4B1AF.3020303@redhat.com> References: <20051228212402.GX3356@waste.org> <43B30E19.6080207@redhat.com> <20051229195641.GB3356@waste.org> <43B4A3CA.4060406@redhat.com> <20051230033803.GG3356@waste.org> <43B4B1AF.3020303@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: http://www.firmix.at/ Date: Fri, 30 Dec 2005 12:20:54 +0100 Message-Id: <1135941654.3342.24.camel@gimli.at.home> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 (2.2.3-2.fc4) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 875 Lines: 25 On Thu, 2005-12-29 at 20:03 -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > Matt Mackall wrote: > > Ok, let me be explicit: think systems with absolutely no facility for > > recording or displaying a backtrace. > > You don't know much about unwinding, do you? The same information is > needed for C++ exception handling, thread cancellation, etc. Now go on > and tell me you don't need this either. On (presumbly small) embedded devices? Please be serious. Bernd -- Firmix Software GmbH http://www.firmix.at/ mobil: +43 664 4416156 fax: +43 1 7890849-55 Embedded Linux Development and Services - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/