Destroying frame caches

[Andreas Schwab]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 03:06:14PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
>> 
>> > On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 02:47:34PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>> >> What function does gdb call to destroy a frame cache object?
>> >
>> > reinit_frame_cache destroys the whole cache; is that what you mean?
>> 
>> How can you deallocate any extra memory?
>
> Extra memory normally goes on the frame obstack using
> frame_obstack_zalloc.

This is not possible.  There is no way to tell libunwind not to use
malloc.

Andreas.

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