From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3863 invoked by alias); 29 Dec 2011 18:44:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 3855 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Dec 2011 18:44:43 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 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, 29 Dec 2011 18:44:26 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by filtered-rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9537D2BAB80; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:44:25 -0500 (EST) 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 rYTIza6i46Im; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:44:25 -0500 (EST) Received: from joel.gnat.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by rock.gnat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D2362BAAFD; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 13:44:25 -0500 (EST) Received: by joel.gnat.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 94623145615; Thu, 29 Dec 2011 10:44:10 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 18:44:00 -0000 From: Joel Brobecker To: Mahmood Naderan Cc: "gdb@sourceware.org" Subject: Re: Cannot specify --frame without --thread Message-ID: <20111229184410.GR7683@adacore.com> References: <1325182186.27115.YahooMailNeo@web111711.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1325182186.27115.YahooMailNeo@web111711.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) 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: 2011-12/txt/msg00055.txt.bz2 > The complete list of commands I used is pasted below. Please have a look at the end of message where I get the error. [...] > (gdb) > -stack-list-locals --frame 0 --simple-values > ^error,msg="Cannot specify --frame without --thread" > (gdb) [...] > Is there any way to fix that? Why do you think that this is an error that needs to be fixed? The following section of the GDB manual doesn't say explicitly that both must be used at the same time, or not at all, but it gives a good clue as to why that is: http://www.sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb/Context-management.html#Context-management -- Joel