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On Feb 4,  8:32pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:

[Regarding what, if anything, to show of the frames below main() in a
backtrace...]
> Perhaphs the correct fix is to let the user decide.  Add a ``set 
> stack-bottom-strategy ....''  :-)

I think that may be best.  I don't usually want to look at what's
below main(), but when I do, it's usually pretty important to me...