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Re: Specify frame by address

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com>
Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:02:42 +0200
Subject: Re: Specify frame by address
References: <83k47n90xn.fsf@gnu.org> <20111029174638.GA27749@host1.jankratochvil.net>
Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>

> Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 19:46:38 +0200
> From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> "address of the frame" is frame_id.stack_addr.  For DWARF it is CFA
> (dwarf2_frame_cfa), which is for most arches just unwound SP (not PC!), that
> is SP as shown by GDB in the caller.

Thanks.

What is it for stabs?  More generally, suppose I wanted to make the
manual more clear on this matter, what could I tell the user about
how to find out this address?

> Such command really needs to iterate the frames and compare PC there.

Right.  I hoped that I could reference the frame by the PC address.

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