[ECOS] Stack switching

[Gary Thomas]

Paul D. DeRocco wrote:
> If I explicitly switch stacks in an eCos thread, will this break anything in
> the kernel, or in the eCos extensions to GDB?

How/when/why would you do this?

It could make a GDB backtrace fail, but that only happens if you
ask for it.  Normal GDB functions should not be affected.

The kernel stack checking mechanisms would also break - only used
if asserts are turned on.

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