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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

Having done this before, it reminds me of CSS programming: you make a little change here and everything breaks, and you spend hours chasing your own tail. Here's my guesses: 2029: Ubuntu and Fedora release new versions with SFrames for OS components (including libc) and ditches frame pointers again. So what's next?

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