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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Ananth Sowda <asowda@gmail.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Call stack trace implementation
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:01:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071211210127.GA18958@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c92b40c80712111259i5d860224gb2db31d07bd93eaa@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 12:59:33PM -0800, Ananth Sowda wrote:
> My question is on implementation of stack backtrace on architures,
> MIPS and PPC. Is the implementation based on libunwind and unwind
> directives in the executable?  Or is it based on older code which
> analyzes prologue of a function? Or a mix of both approaches?

Both prologue analysis and call frame information.  Libunwind is not
used except on IA64; GDB has its own support for DWARF-2 unwind tables.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


      reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11 21:01 UTC|newest]

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2007-12-11 20:59 Ananth Sowda
2007-12-11 21:01 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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