Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 29 Mar 2002 16:06:18 +0000 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] generic show_stack facility |
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On Fri, Mar 29, 2002 at 07:46:07AM -0800, David Mosberger wrote: > Christoph, why do you think the prototype for ia64 is different?
I have stopped to wonder why ia64 does things differently.
> It's > because it *has to be*. In general, you can't do a backtrace without > having the full (preserved) state of the CPU at the point of which the > backtrace begins.
So your suggestion is to move the other architectures to the ia64 prototype or to not have an architecture-independand stack-traceback facility at all?
Christoph
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