David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:

> On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 11:00:13PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
>> 
>> amd64 is almost always compiled without a frame pointer, other schemes
>> (.EH_FRAME) are used to get the stack traceback info.
>
> Actually it might make an interesting SoC project to write a stack
> traceback function that neither requires a frame pointer nor the
> .eh_frame section.

This sounds pointlessly masochistic. The compiler is generating useful
debug information; we should use it. It's not terribly difficult to
parse and use.

      - Nathan