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2008 Feb 11
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Project proposal for enhanced ustack/jstack
...o be retrieved and used. ** Our Proposal We propose to add two new "well-known" helpers to the ustack/jstack mechanism. The first we''re tentatively calling "dtrace:helper:ustack:fixframe". The fixframe helper, if it exists, would be invoked by dtrace from within dtrace_getufpstack() if it encounters a frame it cannot parse (due to an invalid frame pointer register, for instance). The fixframe helper, defined by the application being traced, would return new values for the registers, which would allow dtrace to continue the stack walk. To solve the problem of inlined fr...