stack crawl w/MIPS compiler?

[pgj]

I'm trying to figure out how to obtain a stack trace programatically. I.e. I want to write a routine that can determine its caller, caller's caller, etc.

It appears that MIPS has no explicit frame pointer, which would make this a trival task. Is there support for this? Obviously the Metrowerks debugger can figure this out, but I need to do this within the application for diagnostics.

Thanks in advance,

/PGJ

[CompilerGuru]

not sure if it helps, but check how C++ code implements throw.
Some implementations do actually traverse the stack with special datastructures provided by the compiler while others do build a dynamic data structure (which would not help you much). I dont know MIPS at all tough.

Daniel