From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31791 invoked by alias); 20 Aug 2006 16:50:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 31783 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Aug 2006 16:50:16 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 16:50:09 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GEqUx-0005fx-FC for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:50:07 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2006 12:50:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc, frame] Add backtrace stop reasons Message-ID: <20060820165007.GC20987@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20060819154646.GA25238@nevyn.them.org> <200608201438.k7KEcJho022644@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200608201438.k7KEcJho022644@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060403 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-08/txt/msg00143.txt.bz2 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