On Thursday, January 12, 2017 3:02:59 PM CET Arun Sharma wrote: > In Feb 2006, I submitted some libuwind patches [1], which were > motivated by my inability to tolerate a horribly outdated linux > distribution at my employer at the time. I was trying to develop on a > newer x86_64 distro that didn't have frame pointers and had to support > heap profiling. > > > A decade has passed, the world has moved on and as you may have > noticed, I haven't done a great job of keeping up with patches. > Fortunately, Dave Watson has stepped up to take over. As you may have > noticed he has been posting patches to the mailing list and has made a > queue of all patches posted to the list in the last year or so. He'll > be going through them, vetting them and will be looking to make a more > current release in the coming months.
Great news! Thanks Dave for stepping up - this is such an important FOSS project, it made me sad to see that noone really had the time to take proper care of it. Much appreciated! > I believe libunwind continues to have a special place in the community > after all these years because of the unique value it provides. Use it > anywhere you want -- that includes any hardware, anywhere in your code > (including malloc), many open source OSes, any type of software -- and > still get a stack trace. > > > I'll continue to be active on other open source projects. I've met a > lot of great people over the years due to my association with > libunwind. Thank you for everything. Please support Dave with testing > (I'm thinking of you aarch64 and mips folks) and reviews he needs to > make libunwind more awesome. Thanks to you Arun for doing such great work in the past! -- Milian Wolff m...@milianw.de http://milianw.de _______________________________________________ Libunwind-devel mailing list Libunwind-devel@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/libunwind-devel