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Re: [mpatrol] mpatrol port using libunwind

On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 04:22:21PM +0100, Graeme Roy wrote:
> Thanks for sharing the patch. I wasn't aware of the libunwind project
> before now and it certainly looks like something that mpatrol could make use
> of in the future for other processors. Especially if it does things
> properly with regards to compiler optimisations and also working robustly on
> RISC processors.

Yes, it does - it was originally designed for IA-64, which may be one
of the hardest platforms to generate backtraces that I've ever
encountered.

Glad to help.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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Hi all, On behalf of MontaVista, CodeSourcery recently added support to mpatrol to use libunwind (http://www.nongnu.org/libunwind/) in order to provide...
Daniel Jacobowitz
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Hi Daniel, Thanks for sharing the patch. I wasn't aware of the libunwind project before now and it certainly looks like something that mpatrol could make use ...
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AFAIK, libunwind exists on several platforms... on hpux for PA-RISC processors for instance. Are there specific known issues which restrict it's usage with ...
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... Nope. We just didn't test it anywhere else. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery...
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... Yes, it does - it was originally designed for IA-64, which may be one of the hardest platforms to generate backtraces that I've ever encountered. Glad to...
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