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Re: [MinGW] RFC/RFA: Get Partial Stack Traces on Windows
Ranjit Mathew writes:
> On 7/5/06, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > Probably, but is it worth it? Wouldn't it be better to apply all those
> > brain cycles to fixing exception handling to use DWARF rather than all
> > these kludges?
>
> I couldn't agree with you more. However, switching to DW2 EH
> will not happen:
>
> 1. for GCC 4.2.0
> 2. unless someone figures out the unwinding-from-a-GUI-callback
> thing.
>
> Given these constraints, I think it is not that much of a waste of time
> to make stack traces work with SJLJ EH for MinGW.
OK. Well, scanning backwards for the prologue should work.
Andrew.