Re: [Libunwind-devel] Remote unwinding only?

[Ken Werner]

On 09/16/2011 06:31 PM, Arun Sharma wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Ken Werner<address@hidden>  wrote:
> > Exactly. I've ported libunwind to work on Android and hacked the debuggerd
> > to make use of libunwind-ptrace to dump stack traces. The other reason I
> > wanted a libunwind with remote unwinding capabilities only is that bionic
> > (Androids libc) doesn't support dl_iterate_phdr which would be essential for
> > local unwinding.
>
> A standalone async signal safe dl_iterate_phdr() with minimal hooks
> may not be such a bad thing :)

I agree. :)

> Yeah -DUNW_REMOTE_ONLY looks good to me.

Since libunwind-ptrace is using the remote interface I had to tweak the 
sources a bit. The patches can be found at:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/libunwind-devel/2011-10/msg00020.html

Regards
Ken