From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 24670 invoked by alias); 3 Jul 2007 21:58:27 -0000 Received: (qmail 24662 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Jul 2007 21:58:26 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:58:24 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AB3D09829D; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 21:58:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 658299819F; Tue, 3 Jul 2007 21:58:22 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1I5qNb-0000Na-Bc; Tue, 03 Jul 2007 17:57:51 -0400 Date: Tue, 03 Jul 2007 21:58:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Blandy Cc: "Mohammed, Moqtadir" , gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: Can this be happening? Message-ID: <20070703215751.GA941@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Blandy , "Mohammed, Moqtadir" , gdb@sourceware.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.15 (2007-04-09) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-07/txt/msg00034.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jul 03, 2007 at 02:38:51PM -0700, Jim Blandy wrote: > I don't know why the upper bits would be set. GDB may be > misinterpreting the information in the core file. The kernel dumps it as 32-bit too. It's not clear what those bits are for, but I bet they're really in your core dump and you should ask the kernel developers. Moves from the segment registers may leave implementation defined data in the upper half register - but that's only for fairly old Intel processors. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery