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Add a note on recursive functions potentially breaking the unwinder
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This happens for cpp-recursion e.g., see also issue #93
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milianw committed Sep 28, 2017
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Expand Up @@ -221,6 +221,7 @@ notably, unwinding will fail when:
perf record --call-graph dwarf,32768

Note that this can dramatically increase the size of the `perf.data` files - use it with care. Also have a look at `man perf record`.
- For some scenarios, recursive function calls simply fail to be unwound. See also https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/issues/93

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