> On the other hand, some platforms don't need a frame pointer for debugging; if you emit correct unwind tables that's enough for the debugger to construct a ba

> On the other hand, some platforms don't need a frame pointer for debugging; if you emit correct unwind tables that's enough for the debugger to construct a backtrace. I haven't looked lately but am pretty sure amd64 ELF is one of them. Working with unwind tables is more complicated and many useful debugging tools don't do so.