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Linux/ELF .eh_frame from the bottom up

Problem statement Given the current register state for a thread, and read-only access to memory, what would the register state hypothetically become if the current function was to immediately return and execution was to resume in its caller? Notably, the register state includes (amongst other things) an instruction pointer and a stack pointer, so this operation can be iterated to generate a backtrace. With some extensions to support calling destructors and catching exceptions, this operation can...

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