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From: Andrew STUBBS <andrew.stubbs@st.com>
To: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	PAUL GILLIAM <pgilliam@us.ibm.com>,
	        Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>,
	        Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,
	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Move the frame zero PC check earlier
Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <446C3EB3.1040606@st.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vt2sln8koq6.fsf@theseus.home.>

Jim Blandy wrote:
> For the record, at the top of this thread I said I thought it was
> fine, too.  I've run into these often enough due to deliberate
> attempts by runtimes to terminate the stack that I think it outweighs
> the (minor, to my mind) value of seeing a 0x00000000 frame that
> indicates an actual error.
> 
> GDB should be honest with the user about what it finds, but I don't
> think we can be a multi-platform debugger and be that picky about
> confining each bit of logic to exactly the platforms that promise to
> uphold it.

How about adding a command:

set backtrace terminate-on-zero-pc on|off

and let the user decide. Set it to 'on' by default on the principle 
that, if they aren't aware of the possibility, users don't want to see 
zero frames they don't understand.

Just a thought.

Andrew


  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-18  9:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-10 18:03 Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-11 10:42 ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-05-11 22:24 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-11 22:32   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-12  6:21     ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-12 12:46       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-13 10:14 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-13 15:17   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-13 15:46     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-13 17:08       ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-13 16:49     ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-13 18:53       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-16 21:38       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-16 22:19         ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-16 22:46           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-16 23:53             ` PAUL GILLIAM
2006-05-18  1:35               ` Joel Brobecker
2006-05-18  9:31                 ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-18 10:09                   ` Andrew STUBBS [this message]
2006-05-18 17:36                     ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-18 18:09                       ` PAUL GILLIAM
2006-05-18 20:04                         ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-18 20:43                           ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-18 23:31                             ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-20 22:26                               ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-21  2:12                                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-21 15:52                                   ` Andrew STUBBS
2006-07-22 11:23                                     ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-24 19:32                                       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-07-26 22:16                                         ` Mark Kettenis
2006-07-26 22:25                                           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-19  3:32                             ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-20 21:30                               ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-19 12:26                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-19 18:12                               ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-19 18:53                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-05-22 23:15                                   ` Jim Blandy
2006-05-15 13:57   ` Andrew STUBBS

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