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Re: Reminder: Illegal Package-Private Accesses in libgcj
Bryce McKinlay writes:
>
> On Nov 4, 2003, at 12:25 AM, Andrew Haley wrote:
>
> > Bryce McKinlay writes:
> >>
> >> If there are targets that will never support the unwinder (are
> >> there?), then it might make sense to allow platforms to define some
> >> platform-specific unwinding functions, but ideally, by far the
> >> cleanest and most efficient solution is to get the libgcc DWARF2
> >> unwinder working.
> >
> > Efficient? I don't think so. The glibc backtrace() function simply
> > walks a linked list, and there's no more efficient way to do it than
> > that. The DWARF unwinder is a couple of orders of magnitude slower.
>
> OK, but how do you get the java.lang.Class object from the IP value
> which backtrace() gives you?
We look it up in a hash table. We sure don't call external programs!
Andrew.