Re: RFC: %ebp-based backtrace patch

Frank Ch. Eigler
2009-07-06T20:11:05Z

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> A number of Linux distributions are carrying the attached patch from
> Michael Matz. [...]
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=390722#c25
>[...]
> * i386-tdep.c (i386_frame_cache): Assume anonymous functions use
> a frame pointer.
>[...]

Could gdb partially disassemble such functions to check
whether %ebp is likely being used as this heuristic expects?

- FChE