Re: [RFA] Remove calls to inside_entry_file

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> On Wed, Apr 02, 2003 at 12:02:58PM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
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>> >>I'm beginning to think that reverting some of the original change:
>> >>
>> >>RFC: Mostly kill FRAME_CHAIN_VALID, add user knob
>> >>http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2002-12/msg00683.html
>> >>
>> >>might be the best option.  What about moving this:
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>> >I just want to make sure you realize that doing so would defeat the
>> >point of the patch, which was to have the other quoted checks below
>> >apply to all targets.  I'm trying to make the target-specific hooks
>> >less powerful, not more.
>> >
>> >But I guess this conversation's gone on so long that I've lost track of
>> >what why this is causing a problem.  So maybe I'm missing something
>> >important.
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>> The original change broke assembler backtraces for at least xstormy16 
>> and cygwin.
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> 
> Right, thanks.
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> If we want this to work - which is explicitly a backtrace into the
> entry file - then we should probably just kill the test.  If it causes
> a problem somewhere, we can deal with it, but I don't expect it will.

Keep in mind that the frame_chain_valid() function has been 
end-of-life'ed, and the original change has been superseeded by the 
get_prev_frame().  Given that, I think the best thing to do is to 
restore the old behavior for older targets - hence put that test first.

Andrew