From: PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Move the frame zero PC check earlier
Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 23:53:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1147815745.3672.163.camel@dufur.beaverton.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060516221837.GA15617@nevyn.them.org>
On Tue, 2006-05-16 at 18:18 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, May 16, 2006 at 11:37:35PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
. . .
> > And this is exactly the case where I think the jagged end of the
> > backtrace is important. It indicates that GDB lost track somewhere
> > and that the backtrace can't be trusted.
>
> I find that the backtrace stopping at a random function is clear
> enough, personally.
>
The stack, up to where it hit the jagged edge, *can* be trusted.
The trick is to let the user know that there might be more to the
stack, but what GDB has shown so far is valid.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-16 22:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-10 18:03 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-11 10:42 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-05-11 22:24 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-11 22:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-12 6:21 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-12 12:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-13 10:14 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-13 15:17 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-13 15:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-13 17:08 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-13 16:49 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-13 18:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-16 21:38 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-16 22:19 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-16 22:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-16 23:53 ` PAUL GILLIAM [this message]
2006-05-18 1:35 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-05-18 9:31 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-18 10:09 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-05-18 17:36 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-18 18:09 ` PAUL GILLIAM
2006-05-18 20:04 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-18 20:43 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-18 23:31 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-20 22:26 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-21 2:12 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-21 15:52 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-07-22 11:23 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-24 19:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-26 22:16 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-26 22:25 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-19 3:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-20 21:30 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-19 12:26 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-19 18:12 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-19 18:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-22 23:15 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-15 13:57 ` Andrew STUBBS
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