From: Robert Hoehne <Robert DOT Hoehne AT Mathematik DOT TU-Chemnitz DOT DE>
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Subject: Re: Asm Question
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 15:58:39 +0200
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Vik Heyndrickx wrote:
> 
> Does this then mean that program's compiled with the
> -fomit-frame-pointer option, that access local variables directly
> relative to %esp can yield problems with symify?

local variables have nothing to do with symify, but
when your program was compiled with -fomit-frame-pointer
you will get an (in most cases) unusable traceback, since
the traceback is created by eximining the information stored
in the stack, which is not done with -fomit-frame-pointer.

Robert
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