[Stack Cursor] add back link register, do stack walk based on linked register when pc is null #356
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Background
When a crash happened due null ptr function, current logic will produce an empty stack trace. However, we can still walk from link register to get the rest of the stack trace.
Also, after this change: https://github.com/kstenerud/KSCrash/pull/327/files, We started to see missing frames in the stack trace. Seems in c++ world sometimes there is a compiler optimization which skips pushing return address to the stack and we have to retrieve it from link register.
Change
Test Plan
Example crash stack trace caught after this change (which was previously empty):