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Re: [rfc 6/8] record disas: omit function names by default


On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 20:05:38 +0100, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > It is a "backtrace" into history, not into upper frames.
> > 	(gdb) record backtrace 
> > 	_IO_vsnprintf
> > 	_IO_vfprintf_internal
> > 	strchrnul
> > 	_IO_vfprintf_internal
> > 	__GI__IO_default_xsputn
> > You can see _IO_vfprintf_internal called strchrnul which then returned back to
> > _IO_vfprintf_internal.  This is not a real "backtrace".
> > 
> > I was already considering renaming the command as the term is a bit overloaded
> > in the debugger context.
> > 
> > Maybe "record list-functions"?
> 
> How about "record trace-functions"?

"trace-functions" is fine with me; we'll see what Markus says.


Thanks,
Jan


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