Re: [Libunwind-devel] Alpha support

[Tommi Rantala]

2013/2/19 Eric Nichols <address@hidden>:
> I notice there are quite a few supported architectures in this project, but
> I do not see Alpha.  Any chance of support being added at some point?
>
> I have a couple of AlphaServers which I run linux on, and this package has
> come up as a dependency a couple times, and naturally it doesn't work.

Hi Eric,

AFAIK nobody is working on adding alpha support, so do not expect to
see it any time soon.

It is not impossibly hard to add rudimentary support for new
architectures, but it does take some time to delve into the details
how backtracing works on a given arch.

When it comes to Alpha, it's helpful that qemu seems to have alpha
support, so access to physical machine would not even be strictly
required.

Tommi