RFC: stack trace generation

[David Daney]

Bryce McKinlay wrote:
> Andrew Haley wrote:
> 
> 
>>>Yes.  The dwarf2-backtrace.cc is probably mis-named as it uses the
>>>functions that I believe you are referring to.
>>>
>>>Being a very lazy person, I am only expending GCJ effort on the
>>>platforms that I am currently paid to support (mipsel-linux*).  But
>>>I have to wonder if it would not be a win to use
>>>dwarf2-backtrace.cc with the i386-linux-gnu target and enable
>>>-fomit-frame-pointer.
>>
>>It might.  I think that's what Bryce intended to do.
>>
> 
> Yeah, we are definitely going to do this. The only reason it wasn't done 
> already time ago is due to the issues (PLT etc) that have been discussed 
> already.
> 
Correct me if I am wrong, but arn't the PLT issues related to decoding
the trace?  dwarf2-backtrace.cc only generates the trace so could be
used today.

David Daney.