From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 61802 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2018 14:56:27 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 61791 invoked by uid 89); 6 Jun 2018 14:56:26 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-2.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy= X-HELO: eggs.gnu.org Received: from eggs.gnu.org (HELO eggs.gnu.org) (208.118.235.92) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:56:25 +0000 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQZrG-0005ZU-Se for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:56:23 -0400 Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:38338) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fQZrG-0005ZO-P0; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:56:18 -0400 Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1288 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fQZrG-0004lZ-8v; Wed, 06 Jun 2018 10:56:18 -0400 Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2018 14:56:00 -0000 Message-Id: <83wovcvu8w.fsf@gnu.org> From: Eli Zaretskii To: Andrew Burgess CC: philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be, gdb-patches@sourceware.org In-reply-to: <20180606082211.GF15881@embecosm.com> (message from Andrew Burgess on Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:22:11 +0100) Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 2/2] gdb: Change how frames are selected for 'frame' and 'info frame'. Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <63020671a997f926cd747677cd4e614e51e81f8d.1525797846.git.andrew.burgess@embecosm.com> <83k1sanw3t.fsf@gnu.org> <20180521115357.GS3797@embecosm.com> <83y3gddl5q.fsf@gnu.org> <20180605185318.GE15881@embecosm.com> <1528233316.1703.31.camel@skynet.be> <20180606082211.GF15881@embecosm.com> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2018-06/txt/msg00142.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:22:11 +0100 > From: Andrew Burgess > Cc: Philippe Waroquiers , > gdb-patches@sourceware.org > > View a frame that is not part of GDB backtrace. The frame viewed > has stack address @var{stack-addr}, and optionally, a program > counter address of @var{pc-addr}. > > This is useful mainly if the chaining of stack frames has been > damaged by a bug, making it impossible for @value{GDBN} to assign > numbers properly to all frames. In addition, this can be useful > when your program has multiple stacks and switches between them. > > Eli, how does this sound? Sounds good (modulo "@value{GDBN}" instead of "GDB"). Thanks.