From: Doug Evans <dje@transmeta.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RFC: Unpredictable register set operations
Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2003 22:29:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <16148.32802.626837.445502@casey.transmeta.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030715220923.GA30513@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
> So what happens if you "set $ps = 0"? Well, the right thing happens, but
> until the next time the target stops "print $ps" will print 0. Which is not
> actually the value of the $ps register.
>
> Thoughts? Is this a problem worth fixing?
Definately worth fixing.
In complex systems there may be various scripts that make use of
these register's values.
Having these scripts randomly break because gdb is lying to the script
about what the value of the register is is, well, not nice.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-15 22:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-15 22:09 Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-07-15 22:27 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-07-15 22:29 ` Doug Evans [this message]
2003-07-16 2:46 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-07-16 3:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-07-21 16:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-08-05 5:13 ` Andrew Cagney
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