Backtrace in uClibC

ANDY KENNEDY ANDY.KENNEDY at adtran.com
Tue Jan 18 16:21:35 UTC 2011


> On 12/01/11 17:50, ANDY KENNEDY wrote:
> > I noticed that almost exactly a year ago Carmelo Amoroso posted
> stating
> > that he hoped to do more work on backtrace.  After looking at
> > libubactrace/sh/backtrace.c, I'm confused as to why this is platform
> > dependant code.  The code appears to ONLY use library calls that
> should
> > be available on _any_ platform.  I have copied the code to a mips
> > subdirectory and am testing at the moment, but I'm curious as to
what
> > potential problems I'll find; due to my wealth of knowledge of
> backtrace
> > (that would be 0) I'm sure I don't know why this would not work.
> >
> > If you have any information, please enlighten me!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Andy
> 
> Hi Andy,
> likely you are right and the current sh implementation can be widely
> used.
> Let me a few time to review this code.
> In the meanwhile you're feedback with your try n mips would be
helpful.

It failed.  The message was that I needed to have mips specific code to
include backtrace support.  I worked around the issue by rolling back
the version of the package I was attempting to use.  If I get time I'll
attempt it again.

Andy


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