> Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2013 02:31:19 -0400 > From: "Jasper St. Pierre" <[email protected]> > > Whoops, I misspoke when I talked about libbacktrace. I meant libunwind all > throughout, since that's what Xorg uses right now. > > Should we work on making the elfutils backtrace API more like libunwind / > libbacktrace, and simpler to embed? Right now we have support code in glib > that forks off gdb and feeds it commands over a stream, which is horribly > slow and often deadlocks your app; I was planning to replace it with > libunwind. > > Should we focus on porting libbacktrace / libunwind to elfutils, and have > one simple API for this?
elfutils is GPL'ed, which is undesirable for Xorg. libbacktrace is BSD(-ish) licensed, which is much more aligned with the MIT license used for most of Xorg. _______________________________________________ [email protected]: X.Org development Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
