On Sun, 4 Mar 2012, Alex Schuilenburg wrote: > On 04/03/2012 19:37, John Dallaway wrote: > > Hi Alex > > > > Alex Schuilenburg wrote:
[snip] > >> There is only one issue uncovered so far, and that is the backtrace > >> of gdb 7.3 is unreliable. It occasionally can end up in an > >> infinite loop, while our own 7.2 gdb for eCosPro works just fine in > >> exactly the same tests (i.e. built with gcc 4.6.2). However, I > >> guess users could add a "set backtracelimit=100" and that should > >> catch this issue. > > That is useful info, thank you. Could you provide examples of the > > infinite backtrace please? We need to understand which of the > > backtrace backstops is missing or ineffective. > > kexcept1 and except1 backtrace fail in every perm with 7.3 gdb. I confirm it (I got the same for ARM7 target), it seems to me this is old story http://bugs.ecos.sourceware.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1000699 But, if GDB 7.2 (I hope it was not patched a lot :-) manages that properly, I would stick on GDB 7.2 (I will test it). Thank you for your information! Sergei
