regression: [MinGW] Slightly More Robust Stacktraces on Windows

[Ranjit Mathew]

On 10/6/06, Marco Trudel <mtrudel@gmx.ch> wrote:
> I now got it working by reverting the latest three patches that were
> applied to backtrace.h.
> The question now is what to do. I don't think we can leave it broken, do
> we? I currently don't have the time to debug and fix that myself, but I
> could provide you the failing example (it's one line of code).
> Or is it better to remove the patch?

I'm travelling right now (and will continue to for a month), so even
if you do send me the problematic code I can't do much with it. :-(
Sorry about that.

Thanks,
Ranjit.

> Marco
>
>
> Marco Trudel wrote:
> > Ranjit Mathew wrote:
> >> On 10/6/06, Marco Trudel <mtrudel@gmx.ch> wrote:
> >>> I refer to this patch:
> >>> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/java-patches/2006-q3/msg00051.html
> >>>
> >>> This breaks JNI in certain cases. The application just silently dies
> >>> when trying to run a native method.
> >>> Unfortunately it is a foreign library, I do not have it's source code to
> >>> track the problem down.
> >>> So Ranjit, do you have an idea what it could be?
> >>
> >> Sorry, off the top of my head I don't. You will have to
> >> debug this. If asked for a wild guess, I would say
> >> that libffi doesn't have frame-pointers enabled.
> >>
> >> Sorry I couldn't be of more help,
> >
> > Can we then revert that patch? I'm running out of time for my project
> > and I needed already 2 days to track the problem down to that patch.
> > I tried reverting only that patch but it fails. Reverting backtrace.h to
> > the previous revision (115069) doesn't work as well. My application
> > doesn't even start (with the patch it dies when trying to load the lib
> > in question)
> >
> > Marco
> >
> >
>


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