From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with archive (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rYJ-0002ml-AW for mharc-grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:03:55 -0400 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rXt-0002gO-Iq for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:03:29 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rXo-0002eL-No for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:03:27 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1E5rXo-0002be-Er for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:03:24 -0400 Received: from [145.74.66.11] (helo=mail-cn.han.nl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1E5rin-0004De-Em for grub-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:14:45 -0400 Received: from vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4AD18942 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:58:10 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail-cn.han.nl ([145.74.66.11]) by vscan-cn.han.nl (venus.han.nl [145.74.65.6]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 13260-02 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:58:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from mail1.han.nl (mail1.han.nl [145.74.103.11]) by mail-cn.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id A3BBA8783 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:58:08 +0200 (CEST) Received: from localhost.localdomain (mgerards.xs4all.nl [82.92.27.129]) by mail1.han.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5EE95C047 for ; Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:58:08 +0200 (CEST) Mail-Copies-To: metgerards@student.han.nl To: The development of GRUB 2 References: <4304EE23.7010206@inma.ucl.ac.be> From: Marco Gerards Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:58:09 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4304EE23.7010206@inma.ucl.ac.be> (Vincent Guffens's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2005 22:22:59 +0200") Message-ID: <87zmrf7yji.fsf@student.han.nl> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new (2.2.0) at vscan-cn.han.nl Subject: Re: backtrace support X-BeenThere: grub-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: The development of GRUB 2 List-Id: The development of GRUB 2 List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2005 21:03:37 -0000 Vincent Guffens writes: Hi Vincent, > After having searched for the reason of the unaligned pointer caused > by the nested functions bug, I thought that it could be interesting to > have a backtrace in grub. It would be triggered in grub_fatal and > would print the last few function calls that triggered the problem. Neat! I would like to have this in GRUB2 for debugging. If Okuji likes it too and you can send in a Changelog entry as well, I will proofread the patch so it can be applied ASAP. Thanks, Marco