On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:50:55 -0500, Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > There is no technical reason that frame pointers are required for KGDB > in the present mainline sources. This does allow for further > traceability but it is certainly not a requirement for the use of kgdb. > If all you want to do is look at frame 0 and inspect memory or set a > breakpoint and look at some structures kgdb will certainly serve your > purpose. Yes. On MIPS, I can even show backtrace without FRAME_POINTER (if I enabled DEBUG_INFO). > I'll consider this a defect to the kgdb core and update the > documentation to reflect that it is advised to use frame pointers, but > not a requirement. Thanks, your patch is fine for me. --- Atsushi Nemoto
