Re: gdb stack trace problems (Addendum)

Roland Schwingel
2005-04-26T08:16:16Z

Hi....

> Well the present situation is quite problematic for us. In past days
> (gdb 5.3)
> when an application crashed we had a quite accurate backtrace. It
wasn't
> wrong (for us). Finding/Fixing bugs was very easy. GDB has been
> very useful here.
>
> You probably didn't notice it was wrong...
Well we used it quite a lot and its results were reliable...

> Can you test the attached patch? It introduces a new option named
> "trust-frame-pointer". Whenever you encounter a problem you can:
>
> (gdb) set trust-frame-pointer 1
>
> and try again. You probably want to reset it to 0 before continuing
> your program since I found out that bad things happen with some of the
> tests in the gdb testsuite with this turned on.
Thank you very much. I will do so. I just started a cvs up of my gdb sources
to get a completly current version of gdb and then will apply your patch and
test. But I might not be able to deliver results until tomorrow.

Roland