Brendan Gregg • 3/16/2024

The Return of the Frame Pointers

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This technical blog post details a common issue where profilers and debuggers produce broken stack traces and misleading flame graphs. The problem occurs when system libraries like libc are compiled without frame pointers, causing stack walking to fail and group many samples incorrectly under '[unknown]'.

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