Re: egcs-1.1 (was 2.0.36-pre9

Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:14:05 +1000


On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 16:17:01 +1200,
Chris Wedgwood <chris@cybernet.co.nz> wrote:
>This reminds me, __builtin_return_address is real pain in places, is
>there anyone where absolutely need this, it seems evil at best and it
>might be nice to eradicate it completely from the kernel.

It is absolutely required in the kernel trace package. Mind you, that
probably only works on ix86 at the moment.

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