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Re: IA-64 broken_backtrace on 4.0
- From: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: java at gcc dot gnu dot org, gbenson at redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 14 Jul 2005 11:56:05 -0400
- Subject: Re: IA-64 broken_backtrace on 4.0
- References: <17110.35353.605066.604101@zapata.pink>
- Reply-to: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 04:51:53PM +0100, Andrew Haley wrote:
> IA-64 configure.ac on 4.0 branch doesn't define HAVE_BACKTRACE:
>
> AC_CHECK_FUNC(backtrace, [
> case "$host" in
> ia64-*-linux*)
> # Has broken backtrace()
> ;;
>
> Does anyone know *why* this is defined?
It used to have broken backtrace() for ages, only November 2003
and later glibcs should have working backtrace() on ia64.
> Can we just delete this IA-64 special case?
Sure, just on gcc-4_0-rhl-branch or on HEAD as well?
Or do we want to add a check whether it is working
(or check for glibc version, 2.3.3 or never is ok)?
Jakub