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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@ges.redhat.com>
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PS: If anyone things this is just a PPC bug:

(top-gdb) info registers
eax            0xbffff864       -1073743772
ecx            0x0      0
...
(top-gdb) set $ecx = 0
(top-gdb) info registers
eax            0x0      0
ecx            0x0      0
...

So I guess two things:

- GDB's testsuite doesn't cover this
- Someone modifying a register or register variable is a pretty rare 
occurance

Perhaphs I should add a sleep(1) to the value write code and see how 
long it takes someone to notice that ;-)

enjoy,
Andrew