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Re: [RFC] Move the frame zero PC check earlier

> Cc: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> From: Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Fri, 19 May 2006 10:38:36 -0700
> 
> > I think it was already suggested in this lengthy thread to display
> > some kind of message to alert the user.  For example:
> >
> >   (Backtrace terminated due to zero return address.)
> >
> > Would this make everybody fairly happy to zero in on a solution?
> 
> (UNFAIR UNHAPPINESS ABOUT NON-ZERO SOLUTIONS FOR EVERYBODY!!!)
> 
> Well, no: the stacks we'd like to display are healthy and well-formed,
> according to the conventions of the system; there's nothing
> non-standard about them at all.  So they ought to display as normal
> stacks --- on those systems.

Sorry, I'm too dumb today to see what's humor here and what's for
real.  It sounds like you want to see no message at all, and OTOH, you
also objected to having a user option for turning the message on and
off.  That leaves us at an impasse.
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