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[Savannah-register-public] [task #5756] Submission of The libunwind proj


From: David Mosberger-Tang
Subject: [Savannah-register-public] [task #5756] Submission of The libunwind project
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 10:10:41 -0600
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URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?func=detailitem&item_id=5756>

                 Summary: Submission of The libunwind project
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: dmosberger
            Submitted on: Thursday 07/27/2006 at 10:10
         Should Start On: Thursday 07/27/2006 at 00:00
   Should be Finished on: Sunday 08/06/2006 at 00:00
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Open/Closed: Open
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
The project account will remain inactive until a site admin approve or
discard the registration.


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While this item will be useful to track the registration process, approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific "Group
Administration" page, accessible only to site administrators, effectively
logged as site administrators (superuser):

  <https://savannah.gnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=8692>


######### REGISTRATION DETAILS ######### 

Full Name:
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  The libunwind project

System Group Name:
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  libunwind

Type:
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  non-GNU software & documentation

License:
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  X11 license

Description:
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  The libunwind project defines a portable and efficient C programming
interface (API) to determine the call-chain of a program. The API
additionally provides the means to manipulate the preserved (callee-saved)
state of each call-frame and to resume execution at any point in the
call-chain (non-local goto). The API supports both local (same-process) and
remote (across-process) operation. As such, the API is useful in a number of
applications. Some examples include:

o exception handling
    The libunwind API makes it trivial to implement the
    stack-manipulation aspects of exception handling. 
o debuggers
    The libunwind API makes it trivial for debuggers to generate
    the call-chain (backtrace) of the threads in a running program. 
o introspection
    It is often useful for a running thread to determine its
    call-chain. For example, this is useful to display error
    messages (to show how the error came about) and for performance
    monitoring/analysis. 
o efficient setjmp()
    With libunwind, it is possible to implement an extremely
    efficient version of setjmp(). Effectively, the only context
    that needs to be saved consists of the stack-pointer(s). 

The current libunwind code is hosted at:

http://www.kernel.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=libs/libunwind/libunwind.git

The libunwind API and its implementation are licensed under an X11-style
license.  The libunwind code currently works best on GNU/Linux for Itanium,
but improved support for DWARF-based platforms, such as GNU/Linux for x86 and
x86-64 is under active development.  Libunwind can run on non-free OSes (e.g.,
there is rudimentary support for HP-UX), but that's not a priority.


Other Software Required:
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  None (other than minimal dependencies on the system's C runtime library).









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