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Re: Specify frame by address
On Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:43:25 +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > What is it for stabs? More generally, suppose I wanted to make the
> > manual more clear on this matter, what could I tell the user about
> > how to find out this address?
>
> The debug info format isn't really relevant. It's the architecture
> that matters.
If the debug info provides its own unwinder - such as DWARF does - the
architecture does not matter as it gets fully handled by dwarf2-frame.c.
It is true anything besides DWARF - like STABS - just falls back to the
architecture unwinder.
Regards,
Jan