From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2083 invoked by alias); 15 Jan 2004 19:09:38 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2075 invoked from network); 15 Jan 2004 19:09:37 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (216.129.200.20) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 15 Jan 2004 19:09:37 -0000 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8160F2B8F; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:09:34 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <4006E56E.6010803@gnu.org> Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 19:09:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0.2) Gecko/20030820 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Andrew Cagney , Michael Elizabeth Chastain , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [patch/rfc/testsuite] Test GDB on not-so-little core files References: <20040114145701.9034A4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> <40055B49.70003@redhat.com> <20040114151619.GA6374@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-01/txt/msg00392.txt.bz2 > Hmm, can you think of an efficient way of soaking up most of the stack >> ...? :-) On GNU/Linux, alloca() proved to be useless :-( > > > The best you're likely to get is recursively calling a function with a, > say, 4K frame. That would unfortunatly defeat the current technique of creating a very large but very sparse core file. I'll see what I can cook up. Andrew