On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 11:07:14AM +0800, Randolph Chung wrote: > the hppa kernel unwinder is derived from the ia64 unwinder, which is not > dwarf2 based. > > The only dwarf references I find in the kernel are some dwarf markups in > signal frames to help userspace with signal frame unwinding. Have I > missed anything? > > x86 seems to do something very ad-hoc. > indeed, it very briefly had a dwarf unwinder, but linus turned it off again because it turned out to generate worse backtraces than just chunking through stack frames with frame pointers enabled did. although, there is talk of it growing one again now. regards, kyle -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-parisc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
