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Re: RFC: %ebp-based backtrace patch
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: "Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org, Mark Kettenis <kettenis at gnu dot org>, Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2009 16:21:03 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: %ebp-based backtrace patch
- References: <20090706183316.GA26074@caradoc.them.org> <y0mzlbhy3m8.fsf@fche.csb>
On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 04:10:23PM -0400, Frank Ch. Eigler wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>
> > A number of Linux distributions are carrying the attached patch from
> > Michael Matz. [...]
> > https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390722#c25
> >[...]
> > * i386-tdep.c (i386_frame_cache): Assume anonymous functions use
> > a frame pointer.
> >[...]
>
> Could gdb partially disassemble such functions to check
> whether %ebp is likely being used as this heuristic expects?
I don't think so, but maybe someone else will come up with a way.
Since we don't know the function's start address, we could be anywhere
in the function.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery