Problems with glibc and gdb on Alpha (SX164 2.2.7) (fwd)

[Ulrich Drepper]

hjl@lucon.org (H.J. Lu) writes:

> First problem:
> The backtrace() API doesn't seem to work.  It returns 0.
> I stepped into the call with a debug version of glibc:
> __backtrace (array=0x1201507e8, size=8192) at ../sysdeps/generic/backtrace.c:66

Reliable backtrace information on Alpha are only possible with the
implementation of unwind information.  This is an compiler extension.
I think there are plans to add it but nothing is available right now.

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