From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7757 invoked by alias); 16 Feb 2002 02:40:15 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7677 invoked from network); 16 Feb 2002 02:40:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.135.44) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 16 Feb 2002 02:40:08 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 530693CE3; Fri, 15 Feb 2002 21:39:59 -0500 (EST) Message-ID: <3C6DC67F.1000508@cygnus.com> Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 18:40:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:0.9.8) Gecko/20020210 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Kevin Buettner , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: think-o: frame.c:find_saved_register() frame1 = get_prev_frame (frame1) backwards? References: <3C697103.5060908@cygnus.com> <1020215225041.ZM9434@localhost.localdomain> <20020215175420.A10139@nevyn.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-02/txt/msg00220.txt.bz2 > I don't know. I've also gotten confused when staring at this code. I >> don't find the terms "next", "down", or "inner" to be helpful at all >> when trying to figure it out either. I think we ought to be referring >> to "callers" and "callees". > > > While they may not be 100% accurate (call dummies for instance, signal > handlers...) I strongly agree. That's a much clearer term. I've kind of grown familar with inner and outer - try thinking of ``inner most frame'' or ``outer most frame''. I agree that up/down and next/prev are a walking disaster. Andrew