[Crash-utility] Re: bt -f (ia64)

[Dave Anderson]

----- "Cliff Wickman" <cpw at sgi.com> wrote:

> Hi Dave,
> 
> In using crash yesterday on an ia64 dump I found that "bt -f" did
> not show contents of the stack. Neither memory stack nor stacked registers.
> (It does show the "bsp" pointer to backing storage, which helps)
> 
> It must have displayed the stacks' contents in the past, as the help for
> bt says:
>        -f  display all stack data contained in a frame; this option can be
>            used to determine the arguments passed to each function; on ia64,
>            the argument register contents are dumped.
> 
> I don't find any discussion on this subject.
> Can you tell me anything about the status of it?
> 
> Thanks.
> -Cliff

As the help page states, the ia64 "bt -f" option dumps the arguments
to each function.  On the other architectures, it dumps the data in
each stack frame as an aid in finding the function arguments.
 
If you want to look at raw ia64 stack contents, use "bt -r".

Dave