On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 02:06:05PM +0100, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On 2020-02-16 03:32, notafile wrote:
> > I've been running into this myself a lot lately and wonder if anything has 
> > happened regarding this since 2014, after all it's been six years.
> > I'm surprised so few people seem to be taking interest in this considering 
> > the amount of tools that rely on frame pointers for performant stack 
> > traces, which has further increased with the introduction of eBPF.
> I understand the need for -fno-omit-frame-pointer, however it has a
> performance impact, so we do not want to do that by default. OTOH
> providing an alternative libc is something tricky if we do not want it
> to do it without breaking systems. Someone has to come with a patch that
> is well tested.

Would it be worth to consider -fno-omit-frame-pointer together with
-momit-leaf-frame-pointer?

Kind regards
Philipp Kern

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