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Re: [x86-64] An unreliable backtrace().


Dnia poniedziaÅek, 7 sierpnia 2006 12:16, Jakub Jelinek napisaÅ:
> On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 07:35:43PM +0200, Pawe?? Sikora wrote:

> > (...)
> > A backtrace is a summary of how your program got where it is.
                                ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
                                this is a fragment of gdb.info

> Why do you call it bogus?

because it has wrong program counter list and the gdb `list` command
prints wrong source lines. strictly, it prints unwind points instead
of backtrace (aka stacktrace).

> > Yup, It looks better now.
>
> For what definition of better?

without any special definition of `better` but with a reasonable
definition of backtrace.


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