Re: [6.2] PROBLEMS file

Daniel Jacobowitz
2004-07-22T13:04:13Z

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gdb-owner On Behalf Of Mark Kettenis
> > Sent: 21 July 2004 22:00
>
> > shouldn't terminate the backtrace. And %eip == 0 can happen in the
> > case of a null-pointer function call.
>
> Does it? I thought the stored eip on the stack points to the return
> address of the caller, which is the byte after the call instruction, so eip
> = 0 would only occur in a stack frame if there was a call instruction at
> 0xfffffffb that had just been executed?

Consider a SIGSEGV handler invoked in response to a NULL pointer call.

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Daniel Jacobowitz