> On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 01:20:08AM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > > Included is a manpage documenting backtrace(); it is not presently
> > > ready for inclusion; some issues remain.  
> > 
> > > I'm sending it for review
> > > and for help..
> > 
> > Justin, I probably need you to do as much as possible.
> > Have you read the other documentation, and integrated relevant
> > ideas into the page?
> No worries; I submitted to bug such as to forward it to Sefan and make
> it otherwise available for review.

Please make sure you read those other docs thoroughly.

> > My helping time is limited.  Happily, Stefan is willing to help.
> > Converse with him, and keep me in the loop.
> > 
> > > You can view it with something like "nroff -man backtrace.3 |less".
> > 
> > It was a while beore I realised that "man -l" is simpler...
> For me, man -l doesn't have any underline or bold..

Strange -- it works fine displaying formatting for me.

> > > The most important thing that needs fixing is figuring out why the
> > > backtrace doesn't work :)  I don't know how to get the function names
> > > to resolve from their addresses.  Apparently -rdynamic does this, but
> > > it doesn't work for me...
> > 
> > It works for me:
> It works for me too now that you point out that static makes the
> backtrace symbols unavailable..

Good.

M
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