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Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2013 05:48:00 -0000
From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Richard Smith <richard@ex-parrot.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Backtraces broken on i386 by unorthodox encoding of push %ebp
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On Sat, 30 Mar 2013 22:02:55 +0100, Richard Smith wrote:
> Yes, you're right, I could quite easily.  But a design criterion for
> this project is that it is easy for third-parties to produce
> backtraces from production code (i.e. once debugging information has
> been stripped).

It should be in .eh_frame - which is also used for exceptions unwinding if
an exception is thrown through this frame. .eh_frame is runtime information,
it is in a mapped segment and never stripped.


Jan