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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@gnat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb_assert will never be triggered
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 03:20:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <40FF325F.6030207@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040722023907.GV1278@gnat.com>

> Hello,
> 
> While looking at frame.c:get_prev_frame(), I saw the following:
> 
>   if (this_frame == NULL)
>     {
>       [large comment snip'ed]
>       frame_debug_got_null_frame (gdb_stdlog, this_frame, "this_frame NULL");
>       return current_frame;
>     }
> 
>   /* There is always a frame.  If this assertion fails, suspect that
>      something should be calling get_selected_frame() or
>      get_current_frame().  */
>   gdb_assert (this_frame != NULL);
> 
> It looks like the assertion will always be true, due to the block
> above... Do we want to keep this gdb_assert() call nonetheless?

Yes.  Can you post the snipped comments (both of them :-).

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-22  3:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-22  2:39 Joel Brobecker
2004-07-22  3:20 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-07-22  3:25   ` Joel Brobecker
2004-07-29 22:56     ` Andrew Cagney

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