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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>,
	gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: Recognize bottom of stack on Linux
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 11:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <np1yfzso2c.fsf@zwingli.cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020204204432.A31721@nevyn.them.org>


Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
> On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 06:41:10PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> > On Feb 4,  8:32pm, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> > 
> > [Regarding what, if anything, to show of the frames below main() in a
> > backtrace...]
> > > Perhaphs the correct fix is to let the user decide.  Add a ``set 
> > > stack-bottom-strategy ....''  :-)
> > 
> > I think that may be best.  I don't usually want to look at what's
> > below main(), but when I do, it's usually pretty important to me...
> 
> Set backtrace-below-main perhaps?

I don't disagree, but I think it's a fix independent of my change.

I think the default should be to conceal stuff below main, since most
users aren't debugging their system startup code.  Keep in mind that
this group has a skewed perspective on that, since that's exactly the
kind of thing we *do* spend our time worrying about.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2002-02-05 19:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-02-03 18:21 Jim Blandy
2002-02-03 19:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-03 23:00   ` Michael Snyder
2002-02-05 11:58   ` Jim Blandy
2002-02-05 13:57     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-06 11:24       ` Jim Blandy
2002-02-06 16:09         ` Andrew Cagney
2002-03-30 21:56         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-03 22:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-02-04 11:02 ` Kevin Buettner
2002-02-04 17:32   ` Andrew Cagney
2002-02-04 17:42     ` Kevin Buettner
2002-02-04 17:44       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-04 17:57         ` Michael Snyder
2002-02-04 18:55           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-02-05 11:52         ` Jim Blandy [this message]
2002-02-06 16:02           ` Andrew Cagney

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