> Sent: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 12:13 PM > From: "Joerg Sonnenberger" <jo...@britannica.bec.de> > To: tech-kern@netbsd.org > Subject: Re: Note entry types (core dumps) > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2015 at 01:45:13PM +0200, Kamil Rytarowski wrote: > > From what I can see these numbers are standardized across systems (Linux, > > FreeBSD). > > Not really. > > > I need libunwind (a dependency of quite few runtimes) for NetBSD and I just > > landed here. > > I still maintain that any runtime depending on HP's libunwind is broken. > But people don't want to listen. > Well, I added support for NetBSD in a piece of software, in the critical part it was using mostly the ptrace(2) interface... it was a real mess, because the same kernel and different CPU on some platforms can result in different APIs.. so I can understand why people prefer to have the mess abstracted in a building block and not implementing it locally.
I'm not experienced in runtime development, so I cannot judge whether all that is needed: http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/docs.html Can you propose an alternative to making libunwind work on NetBSD? > > At least partial implementation doesn't look too heavy. > > I've been there. It's a mess. > OK, For now it's not a critical feature and my runtime doesn't make use of it. > Joerg >
