int main()
{
        __builtin_abort();
}

gcc -g test.c

gdb ./a.out

(gdb) start
Temporary breakpoint 1 at 0x40113a: file t.c, line 3.

Temporary breakpoint 1, main () at t.c:3
3               __builtin_abort();
(gdb) f f main
#0  main () at t.c:3
3               __builtin_abort();
(gdb) c
Continuing.

Program received signal SIGABRT, Aborted.
0x00007ffff7e4d47c in __pthread_kill_implementation () from /lib64/libc.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff7e4d47c in __pthread_kill_implementation () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff7dfae16 in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#2  0x00007ffff7de389c in abort () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#3  0x000000000040113f in main () at t.c:3
(gdb) f f main
No frame for function "main".


Compiling to an intermediate assembly file and adding a nop after 'call abort' is sufficient to make it work. Apparently 'frame function' doesn't work in the corner case when return address is exactly past the end of a function (the last instruction was a call).

In practice this breaks the following snippet:

catch signal SIGABRT
commands
f f __assert_fail
up
end

which is supposed to automatically select the frame of the failing assert.