From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 25674 invoked by alias); 1 Oct 2012 17:21:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 25664 invoked by uid 22791); 1 Oct 2012 17:21:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_HOSTKARMA_NO X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:21:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60BFD1C605C; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Li3-2UTY7iwh; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F21C1C6052; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 13:21:22 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 982CFC6DDC; Mon, 1 Oct 2012 19:21:17 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2012 17:21:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Joshua Watt Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Option to disable frame checking Message-ID: <20121001172117.GG30746@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2012-10/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2 > Is it acceptable to make a patch that allows this check to be turned > off (i.e. "set frame-inner-check off" or similar), or is there another > method that is more acceptable? Knowing that the Go language makes extensive use of alternate stacks, I think it's just better to remove the check altogether. -- Joel