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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] Don't allow setting register in non-innermost frame
Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2012 16:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87hartpodt.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CADPb22SGp-9TaoA3rNi_PJordCuv_bjwFQZiHvfjktHx3Y_krA@mail.gmail.com>	(Doug Evans's message of "Mon, 20 Aug 2012 13:19:36 -0700")

>>>>> "Doug" == Doug Evans <dje@google.com> writes:

Doug> fwiw, I've been able to work around corrupt, or otherwise not
Doug> completely useful, core files by setting registers in non-innermost
Doug> frames.
Doug> Granted, I knew what was happening underneath the covers, so to speak,
Doug> and I could have done things differently, but I like this capability.

It does seem like a useful power user tool.
I'm swayed by this argument.

Doug> I *could* accept a warning when changing a register in a non-innermost
Doug> frame, fwiw.

That would be ok by me.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-08-23 16:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-17  2:21 Yao Qi
2012-08-20 20:19 ` Doug Evans
2012-08-21  3:27   ` Yao Qi
2012-08-23 16:25   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-08-29  9:51     ` Yao Qi
2012-09-04 22:37       ` dje
2012-09-07 10:01         ` Yao Qi
2012-09-07 10:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-07 10:21             ` Yao Qi
2012-09-07 11:27               ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-07 13:14                 ` Yao Qi
2012-09-07 14:32                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-09-07 16:46     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-09  2:31       ` Yao Qi
2012-09-10  2:02       ` Yao Qi
2012-09-10  7:47         ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-10 19:43           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-11 17:12         ` Tom Tromey
2012-09-11 17:19           ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-09-11 17:23             ` Tom Tromey
2012-09-12  0:51           ` Yao Qi
2012-09-12 13:19             ` Jan Kratochvil

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