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I’m looking forward to this change. Ensuring fast, reliable stack traces when debugging under pressure or tracing complex systems is invaluable. Once you try it
by javierhonduco 4y ago
I’m looking forward to this change. Ensuring fast, reliable stack traces when debugging under pressure or tracing complex systems is invaluable. Once you try it it’s hard to go back.
It’ll take some years until frame pointers become more mainstream. Still, some people might decide to never enable them in libraries they use or their own code.
That’s why I’ve been working on a BPF DWARF-based unwinder to fill the gap. It’s fully OSS (Apache 2.0 for user space and GPL for BPF) and should get out of beta in ~1month.
Previous HN discussion [0]. Happy to help anybody that wants to integrate it in their tools / systems.
- [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788794 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33788794