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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
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From: Jim Blandy <jimb@zwingli.cygnus.com>
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 11:52:00 -0000
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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.