Re: [RFC] Use of create_new_frame from 'frame'.

[Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>]

* Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> [2015-07-08 22:42:08 +0300]:

> > Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2015 18:09:44 +0100
> > From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
> > 
> > I wonder then if there's a better way to offer this feature.  The two
> > possible choices (other suggestions welcome) are:
> > 
> >   1. Create a new command 'create-frame' that takes one or two
> >      arguments, and always creates and selects a new frame new frame.
> >      The frame command no longer creates new frames.
> > 
> >   2. Make 'frame' take an (optional) flag (like 'x', or
> >      'disassemble'), so a user can now say:
> >         frame /c STACK-ADDR PC-ADDR
> >      in order to create (and select) a new frame.  Without the /c flag
> >      no new frames are created.  With the flag only new frames are
> >      created, old frames are not selected.
> 
> You could also ask the user for confirmation, when the command is
> going to create a new frame.

That's certainly a possible option.  I didn't list it as it does not
in itself solve the problem of different length backtraces preventing
the creation of frames; a backtrace of length 100 means the user can't
create a frame at address 100.

Thanks,
Andrew