From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10659 invoked by alias); 19 Jan 2008 04:21:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 10650 invoked by uid 22791); 19 Jan 2008 04:21:39 -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; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:21:19 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 146B398009; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:21:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E739298005; Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:21:17 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.68) (envelope-from ) id 1JG5Cm-0007S4-QQ; Fri, 18 Jan 2008 23:21:16 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:21:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Siva Velusamy Cc: gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: info on "value being assigned to is no longer active" error Message-ID: <20080119042116.GA28626@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Siva Velusamy , gdb@sourceware.org References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) 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: 2008-01/txt/msg00186.txt.bz2 On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:11:34PM -0800, Siva Velusamy wrote: > If my (admittedly cursory) examination of the code in valops.c is > correct, it appears as if gdb is looking for the frame to make sure > that it updates the value of the register if it has been stored in the > stack. Is that correct? Roughly. All registers in GDB belong to a frame. Either the current frame or a saved stack frame. GDB has found the current frame, but confuses its ID with an invalid frame marker. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery