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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index af42b00..0f7ed9f 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -3857,6 +3857,26 @@ The display for frame zero does not begin with a program counter value, indicating that your program has stopped at the beginning of the code for line @code{993} of @code{builtin.c}. +Most programs have a standard entry point---a place where system libraries +and startup code transition into user code. For C this is @code{main}. +When @value{GDBN} finds the entry function in a backtrace it will terminate +the backtrace, to avoid tracing into highly system-specific (and generally +uninteresting) code. If you need to examine the startup code, then you can +change this behavior. + +@table @code +@item set backtrace-below-main off +Backtraces will stop when they encounter the user entry point. This is the +default. + +@item set backtrace-below-main +@itemx set backtrace-below-main on +Backtraces will continue past the user entry point to the top of the stack. + +@item show backtrace-below-main +Display the current backtrace policy. +@end table + @node Selection @section Selecting a frame |