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Re: [PATCH] -stack-info-frame/-stack-list-frames
> My concern about this has been, and still is, that front ends will
> assign more meaning to it than it really has. This is one of the
> trickiest parts of GDB. We already use frame addresses (specifically
> $fp) to create varobjs in non-current frames; this is basically the
> only thing the entire complicated frame_base machinery is used for
> when not using stabs and it really should go away.
I thought there was sometimes an eight byte offset as Mark Kettenis so
eloquently described in:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2006-04/msg00218.html
But thats a good cas in point. If the frontend end is to operate in a
stateless manner, as Vladimir has suggested, and varobjs are created in
non-selected frames, it needs to know the frame addresses:
-var-create - FRAME-ADDR EXPRESSION
> How about we call it the stack address of the frame instead of the
> frame address? Then it can come from the unwound $sp, which will
> be at the other end of the frame and is better defined.
I don't care what it's called. If value this is different from
get_frame_base (fi) how is it computed?
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