MIPS stack tracing

Don Bowman don@sandvine.com
Sat Feb 2 12:14:00 GMT 2002


Stan Shebs wrote:

> Don Bowman wrote:
> > 
> > I've been debugging through gdb for a day or so now, I think
> > I'm on to something. It appears that find_proc_desc is switching
> > to the heuristic approach even though I have a symbol table.
> 
> That's a bug for sure.  The heuristic approach is only supposed
> to be used for tracing through frames with no debug info.
> 
> Stan
> 

Can you confirm that if there is no .stabs, but symbols are present,
that it shouldn't use the heuristic approach?

It appears that if all my objects are built with at least -g1 
then it works.

--don



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