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Re: [PATCH] s390: Remove backchain-based fallback from backtrace
* Stefan Liebler:
>> I still think the code change in my patch is valid because pretty much
>> all systems will have libgcc_s installed (it's required for C++, after
>> all), and thus the backchain processing is essentially dead. It's only
>> used of dlopen fails (e.g., due to lack of file descriptors). But
>> that's not useful because the fallback implements something completely
>> different.
> Please wait before removing it at all. We'll discuss this internally if
> removing / moving to libgcc_s is okay for us and try to figure out if
> the customer in mind is having a libgcc_s or not.
Absolutely. There is no rush. I can port over both versions to the
new libgcc_s loading code in the interim. Thanks for considering this
change.