Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 14 Sep 2002 21:51:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [patch] dump_stack(): arch-neutral stack trace |
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Daniel Phillips wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 September 2002 03:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > > From Christoph Hellwig, also present in 2.4. > > > > Create an arch-independent `dump_stack()' function. So we don't need to do > > > > #ifdef CONFIG_X86 > > show_stack(0); /* No prototype in scope! */ > > #endif > > > > any more. > > > > The whole dump_stack() implementation is delegated to the architecture. > > If it doesn't provide one, there is a default do-nothing library > > function. > > Is there a reason for not calling it "backtrace()" ?
In retrospect, no. But it's called dump_stack() in 2.4 now.
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