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From: "Siva Velusamy" <siva.velusamy@gmail.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: info on "value being assigned to is no longer active" error
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2008 04:26:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7dfeff00801182026h52b7fe6eo82a28c0e745db1b@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080119042116.GA28626@caradoc.them.org>

On Jan 18, 2008 8:21 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 08:11:34PM -0800, Siva Velusamy wrote:
> > If my (admittedly cursory) examination of the code in valops.c is
> > correct, it appears as if gdb is looking for the frame to make sure
> > that it updates the value of the register if it has been stored in the
> > stack. Is that correct?
>
> Roughly.  All registers in GDB belong to a frame.  Either the current
> frame or a saved stack frame.  GDB has found the current frame, but
> confuses its ID with an invalid frame marker.
>

Thanks. Should gdb be able to handle this correctly, or is this a
situation where it is tough to define the correct course of action?

If gdb should handle this, what sort of change would be appropriate in
the target specific code?

Siva


  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-19  4:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-19  4:12 Siva Velusamy
2008-01-19  4:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-01-19  4:26   ` Siva Velusamy [this message]
2008-01-19  4:43     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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