I need to put stack tracing into my program. To use the libunwinding , i need to link with the library which will cause problems for the customers who do not have the libunwind library.

thanks,
Umut

David Mosberger
<[email protected] To: Umut Aymakoglu/Menlo Park/IBM@IBMUS
l.hp.com> cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: libunwind
08/20/2003 04:52
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On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 15:13:13 -0700, Umut Aymakoglu <[email protected]>

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Umut> Are there any other alternatives for unwinding the stack on
Linux-ia64
Umut> other than the libunwind API ?

Exactly what are you looking for? Or put differently, what's wrong with libunwind?

             --david

Keith Owens

2003-08-21 01:46 UTC #3 lore raw

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I need to put stack tracing into my program. To use the libunwinding , i need to link with the library which will cause problems for the customers who do not have the libunwind library.

ksymoops has the same problem, it needs libbfd and libiberty which are not always installed. Link libunwind statically with your program and use dynamic linking for everything else.

ld ... -Wl,-Bstatic -lunwind -Wl,-Bdynamic -o ...

People who install the binary have no problems, only people who want to compile the program themselves need to install libunwind.

David Mosberger

2003-08-21 04:50 UTC #4 lore raw

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Umut> I need to put stack tracing into my program. To use the Umut> libunwinding , i need to link with the library which will Umut> cause problems for the customers who do not have the libunwind Umut> library.

Why not link it in statically? The current libunwind is distributed under the MIT license, so even if your application is proprietary, there is no problem with linking it in statically.

	--david