Type representation in CTF and DWARF

Segher Boessenkool segher@kernel.crashing.org
Wed Oct 9 09:15:00 GMT 2019


On Tue, Oct 08, 2019 at 10:26:13PM -0700, Indu Bhagat wrote:
> The justification for CTF is and will remain - a compact, faster debug 
> format
> for type information and support some online debugging use-cases (like
> backtraces) in future.

Approximate backtraces, sure.  (It cannot know if another frame has been
stacked by the current function already, or not).


Segher



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