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Re: ARM EABI backtrace
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 03:49:55PM -0700, Adam Nemet wrote:
> "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
> > ARM EABI has no defined standard frame layout, so backtracing can only
> > reliably be done using unwind information. I've applied this patch to
> > make backtrace use the ARM EABI unwind information (similar to other
> > targets using unwind information, but adjusted for the peculiarities of
> > unwinding on ARM).
>
> Any reason we can't share such implementation across different targets.
> I am of course thinking of MIPS which has the same problem and solution.
This one needed minor adaptation for ARM EH peculiarities. If I
remember correctly, MIPS can just use the IA64 implementation
directly via #include.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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