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Re: Setting registers

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
To: Paul Koning <pkoning at equallogic dot com>
Cc: eliz at gnu dot org, yoursindu at gmail dot com, dave dot korn at artimi dot com, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 10:48:55 -0400
Subject: Re: Setting registers
References: <656b5870706130328v7121cdcdt18c4b59baebc0865@mail.gmail.com> <018d01c7adc0$f10ff770$2e08a8c0@CAM.ARTIMI.COM> <656b5870706150555k47cf81c6w393d14502018b80b@mail.gmail.com> <u8xali8r1.fsf@gnu.org> <18034.42274.624904.560657@pkoning.equallogic.com>

On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 10:41:38AM -0400, Paul Koning wrote:
> Sometimes it would be useful to be able to.  If the stack is corrupt,
> or the return address (for processor types that have such a thing) and
> you can figure out the correct values, it would be very handy to be
> able to tell gdb "here is the right value" and let it use that for
> subsequent analysis.

We do get requests for this so frequently that I'm tempted to allow
modifiable registers... memory, though, would be hard.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

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