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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 10:26:34 -0800
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>>>>> On Fri, 29 Mar 2002 09:36:26 -0800, Andrew Morton <akpm@zip.com.au> said:

  Andrew> The way I ended up resolving these sorts of issues was to
  Andrew> make the generic function

  Andrew> 	void dump_stack(void);

  Andrew> under the (hopefully valid) assumption that all
  Andrew> architectures can somehow, in some manner, manage to spit
  Andrew> out something useful.

  Andrew> For a transitional/compatibility think, there's
  Andrew> lib/dump_stack.c which just prints "I'm broken".

  Andrew> Here's the diff.  Comments?

Looks good to me.

Thanks,

	--david
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