On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 03:16:38PM -0000, Graeme Roy wrote:
> The 1.5.1 release of mpatrol has just been completed and released to the
> Subversion repository at SourceForge,

Awesome, thank you!

> I didn't make libunwind the default stack traversal mechanism for MIPS yet
> as
> I know some people are still using the existing MIPS mechanism and until the
> patches for getting libunwind to work on MIPS are public there didn't seem
> any
> point in changing the current default.

FWIW, they are public; they're in the libunwind GIT repository.
Leaving the default alone makes sense if anyone's using the existing
mechanism, though - libunwind on MIPS has some limitations.

> Also, it might be better to use libunwind rather than backtrace() for the
> 64-bit x86 processors as there are less limitations. I just didn't know
> what
> the support was like for that processor in libunwind.

Ought to work. After IA-64 it's probably the best-supported
processor. Everyone has glibc, though, and not everyone has
libunwind.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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