Re: [rfc, frame] Add backtrace stop reasons

[Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>]

> Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 12:50:07 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> 
> 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.

Ouch yes, this is a very good reason to add this functionality.