Re: Backtracing broken core dumps

Andreas Schwab
2009-07-19T16:11:39Z

"Catherine Smith" <Catherine.Smith@arrows.demon.co.uk> writes:

> I have attempted to find back traces of several core dumps
> which have resulted from executing damaged pointers to
> functions, or null pointers to functions.
> Sometimes a gdb command of the form
>
> set pc=$lr
>
> would help, except that gdb says
>
> (gdb) set pc=$lr
> You can't do that without a process to debug

Try using the frame command, passing it the address of the frame you
want to examine.

Andreas.

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