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Re: [RFC] Move the frame zero PC check earlier


Jim Blandy wrote:
For the record, at the top of this thread I said I thought it was
fine, too.  I've run into these often enough due to deliberate
attempts by runtimes to terminate the stack that I think it outweighs
the (minor, to my mind) value of seeing a 0x00000000 frame that
indicates an actual error.

GDB should be honest with the user about what it finds, but I don't
think we can be a multi-platform debugger and be that picky about
confining each bit of logic to exactly the platforms that promise to
uphold it.

How about adding a command:


set backtrace terminate-on-zero-pc on|off

and let the user decide. Set it to 'on' by default on the principle that, if they aren't aware of the possibility, users don't want to see zero frames they don't understand.

Just a thought.

Andrew


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