On 02/27/2013 01:50 PM, Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
On Wed, Feb 27, 2013 at 12:17 PM, Andrew Pinski <pins...@gmail.com> wrote:
Just an aside which program does not understand dwarf2 unwinding?
All Google executables currently link in a frame-based unwinder.
This allows us to report crashes and record runtime statistics from the
executable itself, in ways that are convenient when dealing with thousands
of executables spread across millions of machines, and which are much
harder to achieve using external tools.
There is of course libunwind, but it turns out that it's very hard to
beat speed and simplicity of a frame-based unwinder (which matters when
you collect stack traces across live production services).
I hope this answers your question.
Or imagine something like trying to get traces out of low level
profilers and such. There are situations where dwarf2 unwinders are
just too damn bloated.
jeff
