[PATCHv2 2/2] gdb: Change how frames are selected for 'frame' and 'info frame'.

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Jun 6 14:56:00 GMT 2018


> Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2018 09:22:11 +0100
> From: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
> Cc: Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>,
> 	gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> 
>     View a frame that is not part of GDB backtrace.  The frame viewed
>     has stack address @var{stack-addr}, and optionally, a program
>     counter address of @var{pc-addr}.
> 
>     This is useful mainly if the chaining of stack frames has been
>     damaged by a bug, making it impossible for @value{GDBN} to assign
>     numbers properly to all frames.  In addition, this can be useful
>     when your program has multiple stacks and switches between them.
> 
> Eli, how does this sound?

Sounds good (modulo "@value{GDBN}" instead of "GDB").

Thanks.



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