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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 22:24:00 -0000
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
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To: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: new option --readnever & script gstack?
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Mark Kettenis wrote:
>    Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 15:34:22 -0500
>    From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
> 
>    Hello,
> 
>    As the oposite to --readnow, I'd like to propose a new option 
>    --readnever (i.e., don't read in the symbolic debug inf).  That and a 
>    few lines of script should let GDB implemement a direct equivalent to 
>    pstack (called gstack say).
> 
>    Thoughts?
> 
> It's not really clear what it'd actually do.  If it really won't read
> in any symbolic debug info, it'll probably be pretty useless.
> Remember we're relying more and more on DWARF CFI to unwind the stack.

Symbolic debug information, for dwarf2 is stuff found in .debug_info. 
CFI and eh-frame are lower level than that.

Andrew