From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7156 invoked by alias); 23 Jul 2004 19:31:17 -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 7149 invoked from network); 23 Jul 2004 19:31:17 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mx1.redhat.com) (66.187.233.31) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 23 Jul 2004 19:31:17 -0000 Received: from int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (int-mx1.corp.redhat.com [172.16.52.254]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6NJVGe3001300 for ; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:31:17 -0400 Received: from localhost.redhat.com (porkchop.devel.redhat.com [172.16.58.2]) by int-mx1.corp.redhat.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i6NJUUa21733; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:30:40 -0400 Received: from gnu.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E74B12B9D; Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:30:00 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <41016738.5060708@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 20:44:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-GB; rv:1.4.1) Gecko/20040217 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain Cc: brobecker@gnat.com, kettenis@chello.nl, eliz@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com, hjl@lucon.org Subject: Re: [6.2] PROBLEMS file References: <20040723004654.8B6A04B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> In-Reply-To: <20040723004654.8B6A04B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2004-07/txt/msg00304.txt.bz2 > joel> FWIW: As a user, I don't mind when the unwinder goes too far and > joel> displays too many frames. The info we're looking for is there, and > joel> that's what really counts for me. Not pretty, but good enough. > joel> So I wouldn't mind closing that particular PR, especially since > joel> there doesn't seem to be any accurate way of detecting the top > joel> of the call stack. > > There are really two separate problems here. gdb/1505 is all about > top-of-stack detection. How about we document the limitation and > live with it. We fix it. Andrew