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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc, frame] Add backtrace stop reasons
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060820165007.GC20987@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200608201438.k7KEcJho022644@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl>

On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:38:19PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Any comments on this patch?  It doesn't have any major change on GDB's
> > visible behavior; it changes one error to a printf, but that error was
> > always wrapped in a catch_exceptions anyway, so this is unimportant.
> > The text of the message on a corrupt stack is changed mildly; it says
> > "Backtrace stopped: previous..." rather than just "Previous...".
> 
> That's a useful clarification I think.

Oh, here's another thing which I think is useful: you'll get the
"Backtrace stopped" message every time you say backtrace, but you used
to only get the Previous... error the first time, which I always found
somewhat confusing.  That's because we cached the failure, but not the
failure reason.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-08-20 16:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-20 13:02 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-20 16:50 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-08-20 17:05   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-22 20:24     ` Mark Kettenis
2006-08-22 20:38       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-22 20:49         ` Mark Kettenis
2006-08-22 20:58           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-05 22:33             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-10-18 19:52             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-08-21 12:50   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-08-22 20:41     ` Mark Kettenis

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