IA64 Crashes in stack unwinding

[Jim Wilson]

Otto Bruggeman wrote:
> I'm seeing crashes with a 3.3.2 gcc and what will be 2.3.3 glibc on a quad 
> Itanium 2 system during backtrace() calls. Can anyone confirm this ?

You should look at the optional libunwind package.  This is a much 
better unwinder than the one built into gcc.  In particular, it should 
work much better for unusual cases such as unwinding from signal handlers.

If you build and install libunwind, and then build and install gcc, then 
gcc will automatically use libunwind.

See
	http://www.hpl.hp.com/research/linux/libunwind/
-- 
Jim Wilson, GNU Tools Support, http://www.SpecifixInc.com