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Re: RFA: Recognize bottom of stack on Linux
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:06:36PM -0500, Jim Blandy wrote:
> >
> > Now, some folks feel that GDB should show the whole stack, including
> > _start, __libc_start_main, and anything else that's there. However,
> > this isn't the way GDB has ever traditionally behaved on native
> > targets. So this patch makes GDB's backtraces end after main.
> >
> > 2002-02-03 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com>
> >
> > * i386-linux-tdep.c (i386_linux_frame_chain): Stop the frame chain
> > after `main', not just after the compilation unit containing the
> > entry point.
>
> Shouldn't we use func_frame_chain_valid instead of
> file_frame_chain_valid instead of duplicating this?
>
> I don't understand why that function doesn't have more callers. It
> seems that at least all non-embedded targets, or at the very least all
> Linux targets, should use it.
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