Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 30 Nov 2001 13:20:41 -0500 | From | Brian Gerst <> | Subject | Re: Generating a function call trace |
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Davide Libenzi wrote: > > On Fri, 30 Nov 2001, Simon Turvey wrote: > > > Is it possible to arbitrarily generate (in a module say) a function call > > trace? > > gcc has builtin macros to trace back or ( on x86 ) you can simply chain > through %esp/%ebp
That only works if you compile with frame pointers, which the kernel turns off for performance reasons (due to register pressure on the x86).
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