Re: [patch] dump_stack(): arch-neutral stack trace

From: Daniel Phillips (phillips@arcor.de)
Date: Sat Sep 14 2002 - 23:34:50 EST

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On Tuesday 10 September 2002 03:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> From Christoph Hellwig, also present in 2.4.
>
> Create an arch-independent `dump_stack()' function. So we don't need to do
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_X86
> show_stack(0); /* No prototype in scope! */
> #endif
>
> any more.
>
> The whole dump_stack() implementation is delegated to the architecture.
> If it doesn't provide one, there is a default do-nothing library
> function.

Is there a reason for not calling it "backtrace()" ?

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Daniel
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