Re: How to backtrace an separate stack?

Florian Weimer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.qemu,gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
* Tom Tromey:

> Florian> I'm a bit surprised by this.  Conceptually, why would GDB need to know
> Florian> about stack boundaries?  Is there some heuristic to detect broken
> Florian> frames?
>
> Yes, the infamous "previous frame inner to this frame" error message.  I
> think this is primarily intended to detect stack trashing, but maybe it
> also serves to work around bad debuginfo or bugs in the unwinders.
>
> This error was disabled for cases where the GCC split stack feature is
> used.  There's been requests to disable it in other cases as well, I
> think.

Is there a user-level command to disable the check manually?

Thanks,
Florian
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