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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

2034+: Beyond Frame Pointers There's more than one way to walk a stack. 2034: Shadow stacks have been enabled by default for security, and then are used for all stack tracing. Java, for example, has the -XX:+PreserveFramePointer option. There were ways to get Golang to support frame pointers, but that became the default years ago.

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