Re: [RFC PATCH] perf report: add sort by file lines

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 19:03 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > Is it an unwind of the call frame stack to find out what data member was
> > accessed?
> 
> No need to unwind stacks, DWARF should have information on function
> local stack. It should be able to tell you the type of things like -8(%
> rbp). 

That is, we don't even have a life stack to unwind, so we simply cannot
unwind at all, but the debug information should be able to tell you the
type of whatever would live at a certain stack position if we were to
have a stack.

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