From: Richard Earnshaw <rearnsha@arm.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: msnyder@redhat.com, fnf@redhat.com,
gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Richard.Earnshaw@arm.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] "info registers" is misleading
Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2002 05:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200201221347.NAA15786@cam-mail2.cambridge.arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 22 Jan 2002 12:46:18 +0200." <8361-Tue22Jan2002124617+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il>
> > Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 23:08:36 -0800
> > From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
> >
> > This is an old old issue. The frame pointer register
> > is special. Info registers does not show the actual
> > value of the fp register -- it shows the virtual frame pointer
> > (the address of the function's stack frame). Usually
> > it's the same value -- unles you're in a frameless function
> > (ie. one that does not use the frame pointer register).
>
> Shouldn't we document this? I can write up the change, if you tell
> me that the above description is all that there is to it.
No, we should fix it. Lying about what is in a machine register is just
misleading.
R.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-01-22 13:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-01-21 22:51 Fred Fish
2002-01-21 23:13 ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-22 2:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-01-22 5:47 ` Richard Earnshaw [this message]
2002-01-22 7:23 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-22 4:09 ` Richard Earnshaw
2002-01-22 7:49 ` Michael Snyder
2002-01-22 7:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-01-22 7:44 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
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