Re: adding execinfo.h

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20120125035104.GA23361%britannica.bec.de@localhost>,
Joerg Sonnenberger  <joerg%britannica.bec.de@localhost> wrote:
>On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:22:13PM -0500, Christos Zoulas wrote:
>> I've written an implementation of the backtrace family of functions
>> described in:
>> 
>>     http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/backtrace.3.html
>> 
>> You can find it in:
>> 
>>     http://www.netbsd.org/~christos/libexecinfo.tar.gz
>> 
>> In addition to providing support for resolving static symbols via libelf,
>> it also allows for formatting control of the output.
>> 
>> Should I commit it?
>
>I think in the current form, it is too limited to be installed, at
>least. E.g. it won't work with frame pointer elimination on x86. That's
>the default mode for AMD64. A better idea might be to start from
>libgcc's unwind.h.

Ok, but it works on my amd64 box...

christos