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Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 20:25:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: info address "range"
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To: Daniel Jacobowitz <daniel.jacobowitz@gmail.com>
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> Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2012 15:01:37 -0500
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <daniel.jacobowitz@gmail.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:58 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> > Re this:
> >
> >  (gdb) frame 2
> >  #2  0x0100ffda in compact_small_strings () at alloc.c:2271
> >  2271                abort ();
> >  (gdb) info address from
> >  Symbol "from" is multi-location:
> >    Range 0x100f452-0x100f45c: a variable in $esi
> >
> > What exactly the "range xxxx-yyyy" mean?  There's nothing in the
> > manual about this format.  Is that the range of PC values?  If so,
> > then since the current frame address is not within those limits, it
> > seems, and therefore the information is not helpful.
> >
> > Is there any way of knowing where will the variable be found for the
> > current PC value?
> 
> Most likely this means that if the current pc is outside of those
> limits, the variable is not available anywhere.

Thanks.  I will at least describe this output in the manual.