Re: gdb/1799: $fp is not a left value, would be useful to be

[Samuel Thibault <samuel dot thibault at ens-lyon dot org>]

The following reply was made to PR gdb/1799; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb-gnats@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: gdb/1799: $fp is not a left value, would be useful to be
Date: Mon, 29 Nov 2004 10:11:30 +0100

 Le dim 28 nov 2004 à 18:34:53 -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz a tapoté sur son clavier :
 > On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:55:50AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote:
 > > gdb has difficulties with setting back all three registers to previous
 > > value. Putting instructions twice in rest-ctx doesn't help (although
 > > calling it twice seems to !) Neither does putting instructions in
 > > another order help. Would there be any cleaner way to do it ?
 > 
 > I imagine GDB is trying to reset the notion of the frame in here somewhere.
 > then because the registers are in an inconsistent state something goes
 > wrong.  You may want to debug GDB, putting a breakpoint on
 > memory_error, to see where the access came from.
 
 Ok, I'll see that.
 
 > You may be able to do:
 > set $eip = $savedip, $esp = $savedsp, $ebp = $savedbp
 > 
 > I don't know if that will help.
 
 It does not :/
 
 Thanks,
 Samuel