[Bug general/5815] "up" and "down" are reversed

["cagney at redhat dot com" <sourceware-bugzilla@sourceware.org>]

------- Additional Comments From cagney at redhat dot com  2008-03-04 13:29 -------
Here is a stack:

    ---    <- top
  | --- |
  | --- |
  | --- |
  +-----+  <- bottom

when moving around that stack "up" goes towards the "top" and "down" goes
towards the bottom.

- Rosenburg's debugger book points this out
- a survey of old time debugger users point this out (they, without prompting,
complained that what GDB does is wrong)

Remember, our target is new users that will expect; and the decision to use this
model (and differ to the hpd) was made after long and careful discussion which
the entire group participated in.

There wasn't anything gratuitous about the decision.

If down/up were to be flipped, then so to would our back-trace order and our
display of a backtrace.  Not a must have first feature.


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           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|REOPENED                    |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX


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