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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
Cc: Richard Guenther <richard.guenther@gmail.com>,
	GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>,
		Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Turn on -fomit-frame-pointer by default for 32bit x86?
Date: Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTik3lscBi701mjd2WXMdniBwHKd1L2Q6DY2hvpYA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim6oFDFKcYeuuNO8qbGu-BXzy5MPUST0-HAT1Tn@mail.gmail.com>

On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:02 PM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:59 PM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What will stop working when -fomit-frame-pointer is on?
>>
>> backtraces when debugging information is not turned on.
>
> See http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2004-08/msg01033.html and many
> more.  This is not the first time this has been discussed.

Most of 32bit x86 assembly codes in glibc have .eh_frame section.
If backtrace is absolutely needed, they can add -fasynchronous-unwind-tables
or -fno-omit-frame-pointer.


-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-07-13 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-07-13 18:15 H.J. Lu
2010-07-13 20:40 ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-13 20:59   ` H.J. Lu
2010-07-13 21:02     ` Andrew Pinski
2010-07-13 21:03       ` Andrew Pinski
2010-07-13 21:44         ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2010-07-14  8:09           ` Richard Guenther
2010-07-14 13:47             ` H.J. Lu
2010-07-14 21:55               ` H.J. Lu
2010-07-14 12:00           ` Dave Korn
2010-07-16 19:35 ` Andi Kleen
2010-07-16 19:43   ` Jeff Law

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