Re: [OT] backtrace

Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)
Thu, 3 Oct 2002 14:40:59 +0100

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 12:03:27PM +0200, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> At 07:38 PM 10/3/2002 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> >Most architectures compile with -fomit-frame-pointer (except for ARM
> >where RMK does it differently). Neither gdb not glibc can cope with
> >kernel code built with -fomit-frame-pointer. See the horrible
> >heuristics kdb has to apply to get any sort of backtrace on i386.
>
> IIRC, r~ once mentioned that it was going to get worse. He also mentioned
> dwarf2 (sp) as a possible solution. Did you ever look into that?

There was the offer by someone to supply some code, which as per usual
came to nothing.

Therefore its just a bad rumour as far as I'm concerned. I can't do
everything, my days are full enough as it is.

-- 
Russell King (rmk@arm.linux.org.uk)                The developer of ARM Linux
             http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/personal/aboutme.html


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