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From: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Mark outer frames
Date: Tue, 01 Sep 2009 22:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e394668d0909011541v649ada12mab74e87b39a88f@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090831225115.GA4365@adacore.com>

On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 3:51 PM, Joel Brobecker<brobecker@adacore.com> wrote:
>>[...]
>> So the frame
>> id is null_frame_id - which is overloaded to mean 'unknown id' and
>> 'no frame at all'.  The value checks are using it one way and the
>> unwinder is using it the other.
>>[...]
>> Is it too ugly to live?
>
> Not sure. I haven't taken the time to look at the patch itself
> (trying to focus on the blocking items for the next release),
> but if no one else has a better idea... We could try to brainstorm
> on that after the branch has been cut...

fwiw,
I've tripped over this myself a couple of times ("this" being the overloading).
I think this patch, or something akin to it, is needed.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-09-01 22:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-08-28 22:16 Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-08-29  7:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-08-31 22:54 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-01 22:41   ` Doug Evans [this message]
2009-09-02 17:03 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-02 17:33   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-09-03 22:52 ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-10  2:29   ` [gdb-7.0] " Joel Brobecker
2009-09-10 19:12     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2009-09-10 22:41       ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-12 22:13         ` [gdb-7.0/doco] " Joel Brobecker
2009-09-12 22:14           ` Joel Brobecker
2009-09-13  3:11             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-09-13 16:29               ` Joel Brobecker

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