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Re: SIGSEGV on gdb 6.7*
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Greg Law <glaw at undo-software dot com>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:03:33 -0500
- Subject: Re: SIGSEGV on gdb 6.7*
- References: <47A77A6C.8050007@undo-software.com>
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 08:49:48PM +0000, Greg Law wrote:
> yet there appear to be pointers to the regcache squirrelled away in
> various other places, notably the prologue_cache member of the frame_info
> structure.
Could you give a specific example? I don't think there should be such
pointers.
> I guess this might result in some "unnecessary" fetches of the register
> state, but that has to be favourable to a SEGV :)
Not really - we go to a lot of trouble to avoid this.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery