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Re: The emacs_backtrace "feature"


From: Tom Tromey
Subject: Re: The emacs_backtrace "feature"
Date: Fri, 21 Sep 2012 11:07:36 -0600
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (gnu/linux)

Stephen> (I hear that really
Stephen> recent GDB does a much better job of disentangling most optimizations,
Stephen> but guess what isn't installed on <drum roll>....)

gdb is really at the mercy of the compiler here.
It doesn't do any disentangling of its own.
What has changed is that GCC is now somewhat better at generating
debuginfo when optimizing; read about the "VTA" project for details.

Tom



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