Amittai Aviram <amittai.aviram@xxxxxxxx> writes: > I am trying to make sense out of the executable code that GCC (4.4.3) > is generating for an x86_64 machine running under Ubuntu Linux. In > particular, I don't understand how the code keeps track of stack > frames. On x86_64 gcc will by default generate unwind tables which can be used at runtime to unwind the stack. These unwind tables are stored in the .eh_frame section. The format is described in the x86_64 ELF processor supplement or at http://www.airs.com/blog/archives/460 . As of gcc 4.6 gcc defaults to this behaviour on i386 as well. You can change it by using -fno-omit-frame-pointer. Ian
