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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: Stefan Hajnoczi via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>,
	 Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	 tom@tromey.com,  qemu-devel@nongnu.org, pedro@palves.net,
	 "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: How to backtrace an separate stack?
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2022 10:30:35 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87fsnt1xhg.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87sfrtakce.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (Florian Weimer's message of "Mon, 07 Mar 2022 15:49:37 +0100")

Florian> I'm a bit surprised by this.  Conceptually, why would GDB need to know
Florian> about stack boundaries?  Is there some heuristic to detect broken
Florian> frames?

Yes, the infamous "previous frame inner to this frame" error message.  I
think this is primarily intended to detect stack trashing, but maybe it
also serves to work around bad debuginfo or bugs in the unwinders.

This error was disabled for cases where the GCC split stack feature is
used.  There's been requests to disable it in other cases as well, I
think.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2022-03-07 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-03-03 11:22 Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-07 10:49 ` Pedro Alves
2022-03-08  9:47   ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-07 14:49 ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-07 17:30   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2022-03-09 10:06     ` Florian Weimer
2022-03-09 19:50       ` Tom Tromey
2022-03-07 16:58 ` Tom Tromey
2022-03-07 17:18   ` Pedro Alves
2022-03-08  8:43     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-14 20:30   ` Tom Tromey
2022-03-15 14:17     ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2022-03-18 21:13       ` Tom Tromey

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