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[Richard Henderson]

On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:36:34AM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >We always say that if you build with -fomit-frame-pointer the resulting code 
> >will be undebuggable.  It seems perfectly reasonable for this to apply to 
> >backtraces too.
> 
> I've never liked that restriction...
> 
> It can be an x86 specific hack if there are better ways on other
> architectures.

The solution there is to compile everything with -fexceptions and
use the frame unwind info that is then available.


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