From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 17890 invoked by alias); 20 May 2004 21:14:20 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 17840 invoked from network); 20 May 2004 21:14:19 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 20 May 2004 21:14:19 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.33 #1 (Debian)) id 1BQurr-0003VU-03; Thu, 20 May 2004 17:14:19 -0400 Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 21:14:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Emilio Ugo GIUFFRIDA Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Problem with unsigned char * data Message-ID: <20040520211418.GA13414@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Emilio Ugo GIUFFRIDA , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <000001c43e95$75dd67b0$9a8182a4@CTN000514> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <000001c43e95$75dd67b0$9a8182a4@CTN000514> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i X-SW-Source: 2004-05/txt/msg00141.txt.bz2 On Thu, May 20, 2004 at 08:08:24PM +0200, Emilio Ugo GIUFFRIDA wrote: > Gentlemen, > > I have a problem with gdb/Insight :-( > > On a board, when a "unsigned char *" pointer is badly initialized to > 0xffffffff( that for us is outside the memory ), trying to print the pointer's value in the local variable window or in the watchpoint window makes the GUI crash. > > Using the gdb console, the answer is quite verbose, but correct: You probably want to send this to the Insight list then. > Do you know if there is a gdb option disabling this behaviour? I don't think so. -- Daniel Jacobowitz