Dave Korn wrote: > Julian Brown wrote: > >> Unfortunately backtraces don't currently terminate cleanly if code >> without unwind data is reached: CodeSourcery are currently working on >> fixing the linker so that non-unwindable regions are marked properly, >> which we consider essential to making this feature usable. > > I don't understand this. Sorry if I'm being slow, but isn't it just a > matter of returning instead of calling abort when the search for the parent > frame's FDE fails in uw_update_context (or whatever it's called, didn't > check)? Marking bits in the linker doesn't enable you to unwind past them > somehow, does it?
Err, no. We don't want to abort, but instead cleanly terminate the backtrace. ATM it can just go into an infinite loop. Andrew.
