From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26675 invoked by alias); 8 Feb 2007 17:03:21 -0000 Received: (qmail 26666 invoked by uid 22791); 8 Feb 2007 17:03:21 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:03:14 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HFCft-0003vy-JU; Thu, 08 Feb 2007 12:03:09 -0500 Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 17:03:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Andreas Schwab Cc: Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Testsuite failures in gdb.base/callfuncs.exp Message-ID: <20070208170309.GA14405@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Andreas Schwab , Mark Kettenis , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20070131124926.GA18380@nevyn.them.org> <20070131141530.GA22362@nevyn.them.org> <20070131151001.GA25714@nevyn.them.org> <200702012253.l11MrYDH006566@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-02/txt/msg00087.txt.bz2 On Fri, Feb 02, 2007 at 12:29:11AM +0100, Andreas Schwab wrote: > Mark Kettenis writes: > > > No I think there actually is a problem. Either the bspstore matters > > or it doesn't. If it doesn't, GDB should just not include it in the > > list of registers it displays. If it does matter, the test is showing > > a genuine bug. > > I don't think a register should be left out just because it is read-only. > It is still part of the processor state and can present information that > may be needed for debugging. Then can we avoid corrupting it, e.g. by adjusting both registers in a way that lets us write arbitrary values to it? I'm going to let you and Mark sort this out; I don't have a strong opinion. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery