Hey, that's what keeps us employed, right?! If it was easy EVERYONE
would be doing it! :-)
Thanks for the input guys.
Paul
On Wed, 3 Sep 2008, Dave Anderson wrote:
Paul Sanders wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm trying to get myself ramped to using crash on x86_64.
>
> In x86_64 there is no register stack and function arguments aren't
> typically placed on the stack, therefore we aren't able to see the
> function arguments in the bt -f output.
>
> Is there a trick to dumping out %rdi, %rsi, %rdx, etc?
>
> I hope this isn't too lame of a question. I'm just getting my toes wet
> with x86_64 and kdump/crash.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Paul Sanders
> SGI Global Product Support
James is right -- aside from the register dumps with each exception frame,
you're pretty much on your own. You'll have to disassemble the functions
of interest from their last "known" value/location/frame, and following
where the register may be stored on the stack. Sorry -- no tricks...
Dave
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