From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21487 invoked by alias); 3 Sep 2009 21:58:28 -0000 Received: (qmail 21475 invoked by uid 22791); 3 Sep 2009 21:58:27 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.1 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,J_CHICKENPOX_53 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from rock.gnat.com (HELO rock.gnat.com) (205.232.38.15) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:58:23 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43DE72BABD9; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:58:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rock.gnat.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (rock.gnat.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id XfDbeCnLOxvW; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:58:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F5142BAC00; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 17:58:21 -0400 (EDT) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 6CA1DF589A; Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:58:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 03 Sep 2009 21:58:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Doug Evans Cc: gdb Subject: Re: store.exp failure on i686-linux with newer gcc's Message-ID: <20090903215811.GI4379@adacore.com> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) 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: 2009-09/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 > value->lval is set to not_lval and value_assign doesn't like that so > gdb refuses to set the variable with "Left operand of assignment is > not an lvalue." IIRC, this is a know limitation in GDB. Daniel wrote the piece that allows us to read variables that are spread across several locations like this. But i don't think anyone has thought about being able to write to such a variable. -- Joel