Re: backtrace support

[Vincent Guffens]

Marco Gerards wrote:
> Vincent Guffens <address@hidden> 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.

cool ! I will wait a little bit for your comments and those from Okuji 
as there are a few changes I made that I'm not sure if they are very 
clean, especially those in genmk.rb. I used some "cat config.h" and 
maybe there are some better ways. Also, I did not mention that the 
debuging symbol list is somehow redundant with the already existing 
symbol list but that way, it does not modify anything if the backtrace 
support is not compiled in.

Should the Changelog entries be included in the patch or is it generated 
with the cvs log and it should then be sent in the mail body ?