Re: arm-elf-gdb crash

[Shaun Jackman <sjackman at gmail dot com>]

On 5/5/05, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > 6.3.50.20050419 fixes the load bug, but fails when setting the $cpsr
> > (gdb) set $cpsr=0x1f
> > Value being assigned to is no longer active.
> >
> > Do you know if the $cpsr bug has been fixed in a recent snapshot?
> 
> I discussed this with someone else on this list last week.  It is an
> open bug but someone needs to sit down with it and think about the
> implications.

The implications meaning the possible causes, or the implications of
possible solutions?

> I suspect that we've failed to create the first frame, somehow.

Perhaps this would only defer the problem, but in the case of
assigning to a register that's never going away, could we skip the
check for a valid frame and plow ahead and write the register?

Cheers,
Shaun