From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com>
To: Fernando Nasser <fnasser@redhat.com>
Cc: David Taylor <taylor@cygnus.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] parse_frame_specification (stack.c)
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 2001 12:39:00 -0000
Message-id: <3AA3F900.39AF9860@cygnus.com>
References: <200103051707.MAA01373@texas.cygnus.com> <3AA3CC5F.9FE84042@redhat.com>
X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00081.html

Fernando Nasser wrote:
> 
> David,
> 
> The real problem here is that there is an ambiguity in this command
> argument specification.  If a frame is specified as an address, it
> should be proceeded by a "*" as we do in the break command.
> 
> It seems that problems like this have been encountered before.  here is
> the comment in the code that refers to s similar situation:

See:

http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb_7.html#SEC43

I believe David is preserving documented behavour.

	Andrew