Let’s assume the stack got actually corrupted not because it was overwritten accidentally, but because GDB was failing to build it. In this case you are still able to navigate it backwards. All you need to do it keep following the value of the stack frames, starting from the `esp’ register, until you reach 0×000000.
- m. gaw
I do have many of the conventionally desired "credentials," but I certainly don't feel like I'm "in the loop." I think your questioning of what "loop" means to me is a great one. Maybe it's going to Iowa or Houston for an MFA, for example, which I almost did, but couldn't pull the trigger? Maybe it's doing a Stegner Fellowship? Maybe it's living in New York City? Maybe it's not being Asian American? Maybe it's not being a woman? Maybe it's winning the Yale Prize? Maybe it's teaching like seemingly every other poet? Maybe it's feeling like there's a real honest older poet champion(s) for your work? I don't know. Maybe I am in the loop and just like pretending I'm not so I'll work harder and have a greater sense of humility.
- m. gaw