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<a name="Selecting-a-Frame"></a>
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<h3 class="section">8.3 Selecting a Frame</h3>
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<p>Most commands for examining the stack and other data in your program work on
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whichever stack frame is selected at the moment. Here are the commands for
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selecting a stack frame; all of them finish by printing a brief description
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of the stack frame just selected.
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<dd><a name="index-frame_002c-selecting"></a>
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<a name="index-f-_0028frame_0029"></a>
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<dt><code>frame <var>n</var></code></dt>
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<dt><code>f <var>n</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p>Select frame number <var>n</var>. Recall that frame zero is the innermost
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(currently executing) frame, frame one is the frame that called the
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innermost one, and so on. The highest-numbered frame is the one for
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<code>main</code>.
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<dt><code>frame <var>stack-addr</var> [ <var>pc-addr</var> ]</code></dt>
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<dt><code>f <var>stack-addr</var> [ <var>pc-addr</var> ]</code></dt>
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<dd><p>Select the frame at address <var>stack-addr</var>. This is useful mainly if the
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chaining of stack frames has been damaged by a bug, making it
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impossible for <small>GDB</small> to assign numbers properly to all frames. In
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addition, this can be useful when your program has multiple stacks and
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switches between them. The optional <var>pc-addr</var> can also be given to
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specify the value of PC for the stack frame.
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<dt><code>up <var>n</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p>Move <var>n</var> frames up the stack; <var>n</var> defaults to 1. For positive
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numbers <var>n</var>, this advances toward the outermost frame, to higher
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frame numbers, to frames that have existed longer.
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<dt><code>down <var>n</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p>Move <var>n</var> frames down the stack; <var>n</var> defaults to 1. For
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positive numbers <var>n</var>, this advances toward the innermost frame, to
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lower frame numbers, to frames that were created more recently.
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You may abbreviate <code>down</code> as <code>do</code>.
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<p>All of these commands end by printing two lines of output describing the
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frame. The first line shows the frame number, the function name, the
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arguments, and the source file and line number of execution in that
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frame. The second line shows the text of that source line.
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<p>For example:
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<pre class="smallexample">(gdb) up
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#1 0x22f0 in main (argc=1, argv=0xf7fffbf4, env=0xf7fffbfc)
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at env.c:10
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10 read_input_file (argv[i]);
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<p>After such a printout, the <code>list</code> command with no arguments
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prints ten lines centered on the point of execution in the frame.
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You can also edit the program at the point of execution with your favorite
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editing program by typing <code>edit</code>.
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See <a href="List.html#List">Printing Source Lines</a>,
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<dd><a name="index-select_002dframe"></a>
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<dt><code>select-frame</code></dt>
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<dd><p>The <code>select-frame</code> command is a variant of <code>frame</code> that does
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not display the new frame after selecting it. This command is
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intended primarily for use in <small>GDB</small> command scripts, where the
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output might be unnecessary and distracting.
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<dt><code>up-silently <var>n</var></code></dt>
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<dt><code>down-silently <var>n</var></code></dt>
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<dd><p>These two commands are variants of <code>up</code> and <code>down</code>,
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respectively; they differ in that they do their work silently, without
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causing display of the new frame. They are intended primarily for use
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in <small>GDB</small> command scripts, where the output might be unnecessary and
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