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[PATCH] Fix FreeBSD/Alpha outermost frame detection mechanism


Apparently FreeBSD-current on Alpha no longer contains the .mdebug
info that helped us to determine what's the outermost frame.  Fixed by
#defining FRAME_CHAIN_VALID to use func_frame_chain_valid.

Mark

Index: ChangeLog
from  Mark Kettenis  <kettenis@beast.freebsd.org>

	* config/alpha/tm-fbsd.h (FRAME_CHAIN_VALID): Define.

Index: config/alpha/tm-fbsd.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/config/alpha/tm-fbsd.h,v
retrieving revision 1.2
diff -u -p -r1.2 tm-fbsd.h
--- config/alpha/tm-fbsd.h 2001/01/25 18:41:22 1.2
+++ config/alpha/tm-fbsd.h 2001/10/06 19:17:48
@@ -29,6 +29,13 @@
 #define USE_STRUCT_CONVENTION(gcc_p, type) \
   alphafbsd_use_struct_convention (gcc_p, type)
 
+/* FreeBSD doesn't mark the outermost frame.  While some FreeBSD/Alpha
+   releases include (a minimal amount of) debugging info in its
+   startup code (crt1.o), the safest thing is to consider the user
+   code entry point as the outermost frame.  */
+#define FRAME_CHAIN_VALID(chain, thisframe) \
+  func_frame_chain_valid(chain, thisframe)
+
 /* Number of traps that happen between exec'ing the shell to run an
    inferior, and when we finally get to the inferior code.  The
    default is right for FreeBSD.  */


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