On 09/12/2012 01:08 AM, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:

The interface is somewhat constrained in that, on systems that support
anonymous mmap, it does not call malloc.  That makes it possible to do
a symbolic backtrace from a signal handler.

It would also make it possible to have a traceback of a segmentation fault caused by corruption of the malloc arena ...

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