http://www.pcdebug.com/linux-debugging/backtrace-of-linux-core-dump-with-no-debug-info-in-it.html Windows Linux Debuggers Mon, 04 Jan 2010 04:21:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.pcdebug.com/linux-debugging/backtrace-of-linux-core-dump-with-no-debug-info-in-it.html/comment-page-1#comment-1394 plam_tod Tue, 08 Dec 2009 12:28:34 +0000 http://www.pcdebug.com/linux-debugging/backtrace-of-linux-core-dump-with-no-debug-info-in-it.html#comment-1394 It's pretty tough to generate a backtrace if the code was not only compiled without debug, but more to the point, with the frame pointer optimized away. If "gdb" or "pstack" can't give you a backtrace, then you're in a tough spot. If you have any control over the building of the application (for the future), have the developers specify flags to gcc to use the FP (rather than optimizing it away by only using offsets from SP). It’s pretty tough to generate a backtrace if the
code was not only compiled without debug, but
more to the point, with the frame pointer optimized
away. If “gdb” or “pstack” can’t give you a backtrace,
then you’re in a tough spot.
If you have any control over the building of the
application (for the future), have the developers
specify flags to gcc to use the FP (rather than
optimizing it away by only using offsets from SP).

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