Hi,

GDB refuses to access i386 CPU registers if no frame has been detected with:
	(gdb) set $eax = 3
	Value being assigned to is no longer active.

Attached patch ports the existing amd64 code for i386.

Attached testcase expects to be able to compile with "-m32" on amd64/gcc, is it
an acceptable expectations?

Testcase(+me) does not fully test the proper access of the further frames
information.


Regards,
Jan


From the original bugreport:
----- ps.S
#include <asm/unistd.h>

_start: .globl _start
        sub %ebx,%ebx
        int3
        jnz good
        incl %ebx
good:
        movl $__NR_exit,%eax
        int $0x80
-----

$ gcc -o ps -nostartfiles -nostdlib ps.S
$ gdb ps
(gdb) run

Program received signal SIGTRAP, Trace/breakpoint trap.
0x08048057 in _start ()
(gdb) set $eax = 3
Value being assigned to is no longer active.


Original bugreport from John Reiser:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=250024