On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Linus is worried about the unwinder crashing -- that wouldn't help with that.
And to make it clear: this is not a theoretical worry. It happened many
times over the months the unwinder was in.
It was supposed to help debugging, but it made bugs that *would* have been
nicely debuggable without it into nightmares. So the only reason for it
existing in the first place was actually the thing that made it not work.
Linus
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