Date: Sun, 15 Jul 2007 17:02:54 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Michael B Allen <ioplex@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Developer Questions (glibc i386 style backtraces) Message-ID: <469AB5AE.5090806@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <78c6bd860707151653m19164d0djd119add0d3a039af@mail.gmail.com> References: <78c6bd860707151653m19164d0djd119add0d3a039af@mail.gmail.com>
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Michael B Allen wrote: > Hello Again, > > Is there a good list to ask developer questions about porting code to > FreeBSD? > > I have a good chunk of code to port and no doubt I will have numerous > questions about FreeBSD specific features like semaphores, posix > compliance, shared memory and so on. > > Actually my current issue is the glibc i386 backtrace function from > execinfo.h. It's not a show stopper if I can't have it but I would > very much like to have it even if it means writing custom code to walk > the stack myself. > > Any ideas? Googling doesn't seem to turn up anything which is to say I > guess FreeBSD doesn't have a backtrace function. > > Actually does FreeBSD use glibc? > > Mike FreeBSD is actually based off of libc, which is a completely different set of sources from glibc. I don't have any resources and I don't know right offhand whether or not libc has a backtrace function. You may want to ask this on the hackers@ list. Cheers, -Garrett
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