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Re: Adding line numbers to backtrace()

From: Mike Frysinger <vapier at gentoo dot org>
To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
Cc: Philip Prindeville <philipp_subx at redfish-solutions dot com>
Date: Fri, 24 Aug 2012 18:00:24 -0400
Subject: Re: Adding line numbers to backtrace()
References: <5037DF4F.9080805@redfish-solutions.com>

On Friday 24 August 2012 16:08:47 Philip Prindeville wrote:
> How much work would be involved in groveling out line numbers from the
> symbol table in addition to the function names in backtrace()?

the symbol table doesn't have line information, only the DWARF stuff does.  i'm 
not sure if we have DWARF parsers already in the C library ... maybe the 
existing unwind libs do ...
-mike

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