Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 29 Jul 2008 10:24:03 +0900 (JST) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] kgdb, mips: add arch support for the kernel's kgdb core | From | Atsushi Nemoto <> |
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On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:50:55 -0500, Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> wrote: > There is no technical reason that frame pointers are required for KGDB > in the present mainline sources. This does allow for further > traceability but it is certainly not a requirement for the use of kgdb. > If all you want to do is look at frame 0 and inspect memory or set a > breakpoint and look at some structures kgdb will certainly serve your > purpose.
Yes. On MIPS, I can even show backtrace without FRAME_POINTER (if I enabled DEBUG_INFO).
> I'll consider this a defect to the kgdb core and update the > documentation to reflect that it is advised to use frame pointers, but > not a requirement.
Thanks, your patch is fine for me.
--- Atsushi Nemoto
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