[patch] Detect infinite backtraces

Frank Ch. Eigler fche at redhat.com
Mon Jan 20 15:57:54 UTC 2014


Hi -

> That is not very pretty. Lets just make sure unwinding works normally in
> all cases, so we don't need such hacks.

(Note that in the context of backtraces, you need to consider not only
100% standards-compliant and perfect state, but the possible presence
of corrupted data.  Handling "all cases" including those with corrupted
register / stack / ELF data could be a challenge.

- FChE


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