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Re: Stack trace from core file without executable


On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 10:40:46AM -0700, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> > [New process 23913]
> > #0  0xb7f08410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> > #0  0xb7f08410 in __kernel_vsyscall ()
> > #1  0xb7dd4085 in ?? ()
> 
> Frame #1 above is correct; I wonder what causes the rest of it to
> go wrong :-( ...

IIRC there's a patch in someone's (SuSE's?) GDB packages that improves
success for %ebp-based backtracing.  Some bit of GDB decides that
missing symbols are frameless functions, which is a debatable choice.
Ref: debian bug 498030, http://bugs.debian.org/498030 .


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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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