[PATCH 0/6] Re: glibc: Add SFrame support for stack backtracing

[Sam James]

Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> writes:

> On 15/07/25 13:27, Indu Bhagat wrote:
>> On 2025-07-15 3:42 a.m., Claudiu Zissulescu-Ianculescu wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Looks like is this one:
>>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32298
>>>
>>> But let's wait Indu input,
>>> Claudiu
>>>
>> 
>> Hi,
>> 
>> Looks like this one: //sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=32297
>> 
>> Some of the other known issues affecting glibc builds are listed here https://sourceware.org/binutils/wiki/sframe#Support_SFrame_based_stack_tracing_in_glibc_backtrace
>> 
>> BTW, moving forward, since in Binutils 2.45 we are generating SFrame
>> section with a new type SHT_GNU_SFRAME (previous versions were
>> emitting section type SHT_PROGBITS), we need to encourage users to
>> start using Binutils 2.45.
>> 
>
> So we need to either disable SFRAME when building glibc with a broken
> binutils and/or backport theses fixes on the affected binutils branches.

My position is we should require 2.45 for glibc SFrame
support. Distributions or people building manually don't always pick up
the fixes on branches.