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Re: more patches
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 09:36:34AM -0400, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> >We always say that if you build with -fomit-frame-pointer the resulting code
> >will be undebuggable. It seems perfectly reasonable for this to apply to
> >backtraces too.
>
> I've never liked that restriction...
>
> It can be an x86 specific hack if there are better ways on other
> architectures.
The solution there is to compile everything with -fexceptions and
use the frame unwind info that is then available.
r~