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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: using package GNAT.Traceback
Date: 2000/04/14
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Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com> writes:

> The -E switch has
> to do with storing tracebacks in exception occurrences,
> which is something quite different.

And this seems to require the `-funwind-tables' flag.  But why?  At
least glibc 2.1 has a backtrace() function which seems to provide the
same information without any compiler support, by walking down the
stack (obviously, you shouldn't use `-fomit-frame-pointer' to compile
your code, though).