[MinGW] RFC/RFA: Get Partial Stack Traces on Windows

Ranjit Mathew rmathew@gmail.com
Wed Jul 5 15:51:00 GMT 2006


On 7/5/06, Bryce McKinlay <mckinlay@redhat.com> wrote:
> > Since methods are called via the atable, the calling
> > instruction is no longer a simple "CALL <XYZ>". The
> > hack in fallback_backtrace() therefore doesn't work
> > for methods called via indirect dispatch.
> >
>
> I don't think it'll work for ordinary virtual calls either, or even
> non-local calls in a non-static-linked binary.

Yes. I realise that my testing was always with static
methods. :-(

Perhaps we should try to resurrect the c++filt bit in
NameFinder for such severely crippled targets...

Thanks,
Ranjit.

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