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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

The problem is that this system has a default libc that has been compiled without frame pointers, so any stack walking stops at the libc layer, producing a partial stack that's missing the application frames. Java, for example, has the -XX:+PreserveFramePointer option. Just to name a couple of languages.

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