The Return of the Frame Pointers
Brendan Gregg
MARCH 16, 2024
Apart from library code, maybe your application doesn't have frame pointers either, in which case everything is broken. The x86-64 ABI documentation shows how a CPU register, %rbp, can be used as a "base pointer" to a stack frame, aka the "frame pointer." Other types of profiling hit this more often.
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