Re: [rfa/doco] PROBLEMS: add regressions since gdb 6.0

Eli Zaretskii
2004-03-18T16:55:39Z

> Date: Thu, 18 Mar 2004 11:36:55 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
>
> On Thu, Mar 18, 2004 at 08:10:53AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > This is IMHO better than just ``in worse shape'', but it's still not
> > detailed enough. I, for one, don't understand the real meaning of
> > ``decent backtraces''. What does it mean? do I get garbage in some or
> > all frames? does the backtrace stop short of showing be the whole
> > picture? which frames are susceptible and what can I do to alleviate
> > that (compilation options, perhaps)? Etc., etc.
>
> All of the above problems are likely.

Well, in that case, I think we should mention them all.

> Relevant compiler options tend to vary by architecture.

Can we mention the options for at least a couple of the most popular
architectures that suffer from such problems?