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Re: [PATCH] Omit frame pointer and fix %ebp by default on x86 (take3)
- From: Roger Sayle <roger at eyesopen dot com>
- To: Andrew Haley <aph at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>, <gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org>, Richard Henderson <rth at redhat dot com>
- Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 13:30:58 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] Omit frame pointer and fix %ebp by default on x86 (take3)
On Mon, 16 Aug 2004, Andrew Haley wrote:
> Well, missing some stack frames is, from the Java point of view,
> failing. We need stack traces for correct functioning.
>
> We will work around this in Java by using unwinder info to do a
> backtrace, but we don't yet do so. Please do not check in this patch.
If this were the case, wouldn't you expect to see at least one new
failure somewhere in GCC's libjava testsuite? I'll try running
JACKS as well, but either there's a significant hole in gcj's
regression testing or things aren't half as bad as you make out.
Roger
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