From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18722 invoked by alias); 26 Apr 2005 08:16:16 -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 18387 invoked from network); 26 Apr 2005 08:15:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO andromeda.onevision.de) (212.77.172.62) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 26 Apr 2005 08:15:44 -0000 Received: from [192.168.5.120] (oppenheim.onevision.de [192.168.5.120]) by andromeda.onevision.de (8.13.1/8.12.9/ROSCH/DDB) with ESMTP id j3Q8Fc4i019256; Tue, 26 Apr 2005 10:15:38 +0200 Message-ID: <426DF883.3000505@onevision.de> Date: Tue, 26 Apr 2005 09:11:00 -0000 From: Roland Schwingel User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.3) Gecko/20040910 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Kettenis , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: gdb stack trace problems (Addendum) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2005-04/txt/msg00189.txt.bz2 Hi.... > Well the present situation is quite problematic for us. In past days > (gdb 5.3) > when an application crashed we had a quite accurate backtrace. It wasn't > wrong (for us). Finding/Fixing bugs was very easy. GDB has been > very useful here. > > You probably didn't notice it was wrong... Well we used it quite a lot and its results were reliable... > Can you test the attached patch? It introduces a new option named > "trust-frame-pointer". Whenever you encounter a problem you can: > > (gdb) set trust-frame-pointer 1 > > and try again. You probably want to reset it to 0 before continuing > your program since I found out that bad things happen with some of the > tests in the gdb testsuite with this turned on. Thank you very much. I will do so. I just started a cvs up of my gdb sources to get a completly current version of gdb and then will apply your patch and test. But I might not be able to deliver results until tomorrow. Roland