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Re: SIGSEGV on gdb 6.7*

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at specifix dot com>
Cc: Greg Law <glaw at undo-software dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2008 19:26:17 -0500
Subject: Re: SIGSEGV on gdb 6.7*
References: <47A77A6C.8050007@undo-software.com> <1204066487.19253.346.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 02:54:47PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> That said -- I agree with Daniel.  I can see where 
> flushing the register cache and flushing the frame cache
> are two things that should probably always be done at
> the same time -- but I'm worried about the extra overhead
> that this patch introduces.  We call registers_changed
> A LOT, and in doing so we assume that it has a very
> low overhead.

If the registers have changed, how can the frame cache still possibly
be valid?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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