2002-04-12 Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>

	* cli/cli-cmds.c (init_cli_cmds): Add new user settable value:
	max_user_call_depth.
	(init_cmd_lists): Initialize the new value;
	* cli/cli-script.c (execute_user_command): Limit the call depth of
	user defined commands.  This avoids a core-dump when user commands
	are infinitly recursive.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/gdb/NEWS b/gdb/NEWS
index 23777175fef..65621ff6fa4 100644
--- a/gdb/NEWS
+++ b/gdb/NEWS
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@
 
 *** Changes since GDB 5.2:
 
+* New command "set max-user-call-depth <nnn>"
+
+This command allows the user to limit the call depth of user-defined
+commands.  The default is 1024.
+
 * Changes in FreeBSD/i386 native debugging.
 
 Support for the "generate-core-file" has been added.