Re: Set ADDR

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Andrew Cagney writes:
 > PS: If anyone things this is just a PPC bug:
 > 
 > (top-gdb) info registers
 > eax            0xbffff864       -1073743772
 > ecx            0x0      0
 > ...
 > (top-gdb) set $ecx = 0
 > (top-gdb) info registers
 > eax            0x0      0
 > ecx            0x0      0
 > ...
 > 
 > So I guess two things:
 > 
 > - GDB's testsuite doesn't cover this

The altivec-regs.exp file covers this, and, soon, a booke-regs.exp.
But nothing else.

 > - Someone modifying a register or register variable is a pretty rare 
 > occurance
 > 

Yeah. I noticed this failure last night while retesting the booke code,
but by morning it was fixed! Miracle!

 > Perhaphs I should add a sleep(1) to the value write code and see how 
 > long it takes someone to notice that ;-)
 > 
 > enjoy,
 > Andrew