From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31562 invoked by alias); 4 Feb 2002 19:02:13 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 31329 invoked from network); 4 Feb 2002 19:02:02 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO cygnus.com) (205.180.230.5) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 4 Feb 2002 19:02:02 -0000 Received: from cse.cygnus.com (cse.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.236]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA20797; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 11:01:58 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kev@localhost) by cse.cygnus.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g14J1LA17295; Mon, 4 Feb 2002 12:01:21 -0700 Date: Mon, 04 Feb 2002 11:02:00 -0000 From: Kevin Buettner Message-Id: <1020204190121.ZM17294@localhost.localdomain> In-Reply-To: Jim Blandy "RFA: Recognize bottom of stack on Linux" (Feb 3, 9:06pm) References: <200202040206.VAA21952@zenia.red-bean.com> X-Mailer: Z-Mail (4.0.1 13Jan97 Caldera) To: Jim Blandy , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: Recognize bottom of stack on Linux MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 On Feb 3, 9:06pm, Jim Blandy wrote: > Now, some folks feel that GDB should show the whole stack, including > _start, __libc_start_main, and anything else that's there. However, > this isn't the way GDB has ever traditionally behaved on native > targets. So this patch makes GDB's backtraces end after main. What's the reason for this change? I think it'd be better for GDB to show as much of the stack as possible regardless of tradition. Kevin