On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 18:09 +0200, Detlev Zundel wrote: > Hi Jocke, > > > I made my own backtrace function for printing > > a trace from within a signal handler. Maybe it > > can be useful for the kernel too? General > > comments welcome. > > Probably a dumb question, but doesn't backtrace(3) from glibc work > architecture independent already? Why do you need to reimplement it?
Nope, it doesn't give you a good backtrace from within a signal handler. On x86 you can use the normal backtrace function with a minor workaround, but as ppc doesn't save a FP in leaf functions, that workaround does not work well. You can read more about it at http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/6391 Jocke _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org https://ozlabs.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
