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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Jeremy Bennett <jeremy.bennett@embecosm.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Denys Vlasenko <dvlasenk@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: "no longer active" registers
Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2009 12:40:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090413124021.GA7419@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1239610666.13312.97.camel@thomas>

On Mon, 13 Apr 2009 10:17:46 +0200, Jeremy Bennett wrote:
> I've discovered that the Fedora project has a small patch to valops.c by
> Jan Kratochvil, which seems to cure this problem:
> 
>         http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/gdb/gdb-6.8-bz436037-reg-no-longer-active.patch?revision=1.1&view=markup

Just a correction of the credit, this patch is by Denys Vlasenko.


> I notice that this patch is not part of the main GDB CVS tree. Are there
> plans to incorporate this patch into the main CVS tree, or are there
> side-effects that mean it is not generally applicable?

While I could not find a regression by this patch it is just a fixup of one of
the many places affected by the ambiguous meaning of a NULL frame.

Probably the right fix is to have non-NULL frame value for the unbacktraceable
frame.


Regards,
Jan


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-13 12:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-13  8:18 Jeremy Bennett
2009-04-13 12:40 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2009-04-13 12:56   ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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