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From: Michael Chastain <mec.gnu@mindspring.com>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com, cagney@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Abort backtrace when consecutive zero PCs?
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2004 18:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41488E3B.nailC0Y21J3UA@mindspring.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <41487D1D.7040504@gnu.org>

Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org> wrote:
> While we definitly need to allow a backtrace through a single zero PC 
> (for a NULL pointer call - signull.exp) should we make GDB abort when 
> two or more consecutive frames have a zero PC?

Perhaps abort it after an identical frame is seen a second time?
It's not the zero-ness that kills us, it's the repetition.

The naive check would take O(n^2/2) time for n stack frames,
but if you use a clever data structure, it would be O(n lg n) time.

Michael


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-15 18:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-15 17:36 Andrew Cagney
2004-09-15 18:47 ` Michael Chastain [this message]
2004-09-15 20:13   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-09-15 22:13 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-09-15 22:46   ` Andrew Cagney
2004-09-15 23:10     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-09-15 23:35       ` Andrew Cagney

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