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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Failures in store.exp caused by regcache
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 19:11:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3E1C77B4.8070401@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030108190506.GA558@nevyn.them.org>

> (Or rather, by the value code's interaction with the regcache)
> 
> Andrew, this is more your area; I'd like your advice before I dig any
> further.  Here's what's going wrong.  Consider the command sequence:
> "up; print u; set u = s_1; print u".
>   - u has class LOC_REGISTER
>   - The register's home is memory
>   - read_var_value therefore returns an lval_memory
>   - the value of the register is in the register unwind cache at this point
>   - we modify the memory backing the store
>   - we have no way to tell that we've just modified the value of a saved
>     register on the stack
>   - the second print returns the cached value
> 
> So, what do we do?

Flush the frame cache.

Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-08 19:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-08 19:05 Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-08 19:11 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2003-01-09  3:23   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-09 16:50     ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-09 17:14       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-09 17:48         ` Andrew Cagney

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