Maybe off topic?

[Joe Buck]

> The glibc 2.1 backtrace on i386 only works when compiled without
> -fomit-frame-pointer, and it does only resolve dynamically exported
> symbols (so that the rest is left for addr2line). Extending it to
> read the dwarf2 exception tables would be definitely a worthy goal,
> to get accurate backtracing information even without standard stack
> frame.

Would it be possible to use libbfd, to do it the same way gdb does it
and support multiple object code formats?