Why does gdb print a complete stack trace even after switching to other frames ?

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 11:26:42AM +0000, Kalpana Ramamurthy wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Even after switching frames using "frame <frame number>", the backtrace prints
> a complete backtrace from 0 to the oldest frame. Shouldn't the backtrace be 
> from the
> switched frame to the oldest frames instead of from the 0'th frame ?

No, why should it?  Otherwise if you wanted to go down (towards frame
0), you would never know which frame you wanted.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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