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Re: ARM EABI backtrace
- From: Adam Nemet <anemet at caviumnetworks dot com>
- To: "Joseph S. Myers" <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: libc-ports at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:49:55 -0700
- Subject: Re: ARM EABI backtrace
- References: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906241555520.2665@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
"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.
Adam