Does GDB 6.7.1 for PowerPC require the framepointer register for backtracing?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:23:47AM +0100, Stefan Bylund wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Thanks for all your valuable answers! We will use -fomit-frame-pointer as 
> a workaround for now. Later on we will add support for handling the frame 
> pointer register in our OS kernel. That seems to be the future-proof 
> solution.

Oh, I see what you mean now.  You really have only access to those two
registers.  Sorry for being dense.

I recommend you allow GDB to access the full register set.  Future
versions of GDB may use any register at all in the unwind information.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery