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Re: Understanding GDB frames

Why should we improve it this way?

I was answering abstract question how would I use "frame_id.special_addr" to improve frame ID analysis. I assumed it's been a theoretical discussion.

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 06:01:01PM -0700, Maxim Grigoriev wrote:
Anyway, doesn't it look like a reasonably inexpensive improvement ?

Why should we improve it this way?

I haven't seen any compelling reason.  Jim's already said that you
can't rely on frame ID equality in all cases - this stuff is
tricky to reason about, which is exactly why we try not to export the
frame IDs to the MI client.


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