Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files

Andrew Cagney
2004-01-15T19:09:38Z

> Hmm, can you think of an efficient way of soaking up most of the stack
>> ...? :-) On GNU/Linux, alloca() proved to be useless :-(
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> The best you're likely to get is recursively calling a function with a,
> say, 4K frame.

That would unfortunatly defeat the current technique of creating a very
large but very sparse core file. I'll see what I can cook up.

Andrew