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Re: RFC: %ebp-based backtrace patch
- From: fche at redhat dot com (Frank Ch. Eigler)
- To: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Mark Kettenis <kettenis at gnu dot org>, Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 16:10:23 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: %ebp-based backtrace patch
- References: <20090706183316.GA26074@caradoc.them.org>
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