>>>>> On Thu, 03 Oct 2002 11:50:03 +0200, Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> said:
Keith> Most architectures compile with -fomit-frame-pointer (except
Keith> for ARM where RMK does it differently). Neither gdb not
Keith> glibc can cope with kernel code built with
Keith> -fomit-frame-pointer. See the horrible heuristics kdb has to
Keith> apply to get any sort of backtrace on i386.
Keith knows this, but just to be clear: there is no problem unwinding
across functions compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer on ia64. (Other
platforms could do the same if they took advantage of DWARF2 unwind
info.)
--david
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