[PATCH 0/6] Re: glibc: Add SFrame support for stack backtracing
Claudiu Zissulescu-Ianculescu
claudiu.zissulescu-ianculescu@oracle.com
Wed Jul 16 08:13:00 GMT 2025
On 7/16/25 10:44 AM, Sam James wrote:
> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>
>> On Jul 16 2025, Sam James wrote:
>>
>>> I don't think that's going to be feasible here. We'd need to quickly
>>> have suitable probes that have little risk of false positives. There's a
>>> bunch of issues that aren't fixed in 2.44.
>>
>> Given that anything produced by binutils < 2.45 is unusable, and 2.45
>> hasn't even been released yet, we should mark the support as
>> experimental and certainly should not enable it by default.
>
> I think that would be okay. I don't think we really need it enabled by
> default yet for the purposes of any enablement or debugging work we're
> doing.
I can respin my pending config patch to accept sframe option only
starting with binutils 2.45, disable the default 'on' for x86_64 and
AArch64, and (probably) adding missing bits in backtracer to work with
SFrame 2.5
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