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From: Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiago.bauermann@gmail.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,
	 "Catherine Smith" <Catherine.Smith@arrows.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Backtracing broken core dumps
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907192249.05343.thiago.bauermann@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m27hy4ac0h.fsf@igel.home>

Em Domingo 19 Julho 2009 13:11:26 Andreas Schwab escreveu:
> "Catherine Smith" <Catherine.Smith@arrows.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > I have attempted to find back traces of several core dumps
> > which have resulted from executing damaged pointers to
> > functions, or null pointers to functions.
> > Sometimes a gdb command of the form
> >
> >   set pc=$lr
> >
> > would help, except that gdb says
> >
> >  (gdb) set pc=$lr
> >  You can't do that without a process to debug
>
> Try using the frame command, passing it the address of the frame you
> want to examine.

IIRC Ulrich Weigand considers that usage of the frame command to be 
deprecated... I don't know the rationale though.
-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20  1:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-19 16:03 Catherine Smith
2009-07-19 16:11 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-07-20  1:47   ` Thiago Jung Bauermann [this message]
2009-07-20 19:26     ` Samuel Bronson
2009-07-20 19:53       ` Ulrich Weigand
2009-07-20 16:18   ` Paul Koning
2009-07-20 12:06 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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