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Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2001 09:02:14 -0800 (PST)
From: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
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Subject: Re: Generating a function call trace
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On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Simon Turvey wrote:

> Is it possible to arbitrarily generate (in a module say) a function call
> trace?

gcc has builtin macros to trace back or ( on x86 ) you can simply chain
through %esp/%ebp



- Davide


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