[PATCHv2 01/13] gdb/doc: extended documentation for inferior function calls

Eli Zaretskii eliz@gnu.org
Wed Jan 18 17:20:15 GMT 2023


> Cc: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@redhat.com>
> Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2023 16:17:57 +0000
> From: Andrew Burgess via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
> 
> I noticed that the documentation for inferior function calls doesn't
> say much about what happens if/when an inferior function call is
> interrupted, i.e. it doesn't describe what the dummy frame looks like
> on the stack, or how GDB behaves when the inferior is continued and
> reaches the dummy frame.
> 
> This commit aims to add some of this missing information.

Thanks.

> +If a called function is interrupted for any reason, and the stack is
> +not unwound (due to @code{set unwind-on-terminating-exception on} or
> +@code{set unwindonsignal on}),

Please add here a cross-reference to here these settings are described
in the manual.

Otherwise, this is OK.


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