[LLVMdev] Stuck

[Reid Kleckner]

On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 9:55 AM, Gordon Henriksen
<gordonhenriksen at me.com> wrote:
> In practice, so long as frame pointers are not elided, a handful of lines of
> assembly per platform should get you a stack walker. If frame pointers are
> elided, however, you're looking at parsing DWARF to find out where it was
> saved, which is probably too expensive for the job.

Unless you have control of all the binaries that you're interfacing
with, please don't assume that.  Since DWARF frame information was
made part of the AMD64 System V ABI, everyone has been taking the
opportunity to elide frame pointers.

Reid