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Re: [rfc, frame] Add backtrace stop reasons
On Sun, Aug 20, 2006 at 04:38:19PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Any comments on this patch? It doesn't have any major change on GDB's
> > visible behavior; it changes one error to a printf, but that error was
> > always wrapped in a catch_exceptions anyway, so this is unimportant.
> > The text of the message on a corrupt stack is changed mildly; it says
> > "Backtrace stopped: previous..." rather than just "Previous...".
>
> That's a useful clarification I think.
Oh, here's another thing which I think is useful: you'll get the
"Backtrace stopped" message every time you say backtrace, but you used
to only get the Previous... error the first time, which I always found
somewhat confusing. That's because we cached the failure, but not the
failure reason.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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