Re: gdb stack trace problems (Addendum)

Stan Shebs
2005-05-09T05:30:12Z

Christopher Faylor wrote:

>
>If a function doesn't set up a frame pointer and there is no debugging
>information available, how would one derive a stack frame? I could
>imagine a really complicated "search the stack" technique but I can't
>see how it would ever be foolproof.
>
That's where GDB hacking just starts to get interesting. :-) Yes,
it's complicated and potentially expensive too, because you may have
to transfer a lot of bytes. The mips has something similar for
function starts, and a "heuristic-fence-post" variable to control
how hard to work at it.

Stan