RFA: Recognize bottom of stack on Linux

Eli Zaretskii eliz@is.elta.co.il
Sun Feb 3 22:15:00 GMT 2002


On Sun, 3 Feb 2002, Jim Blandy wrote:

> Now, some folks feel that GDB should show the whole stack, including
> _start, __libc_start_main, and anything else that's there.  However,
> this isn't the way GDB has ever traditionally behaved on native
> targets.  So this patch makes GDB's backtraces end after main.

I'm probably missing something important, but couldn't there be a program 
written in assembly that doesn't have a `main' at all?



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