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

[Stefan Bylund]

You're not being dense. You really helped me. Thanks again.

/Stefan


Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 11:23:47AM +0100, Stefan Bylund wrote:
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>>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.
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>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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