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Re: Backtracing broken core dumps


Em Domingo 19 Julho 2009 13:11:26 Andreas Schwab escreveu:
> "Catherine Smith" <Catherine.Smith@arrows.demon.co.uk> writes:
> > I have attempted to find back traces of several core dumps
> > which have resulted from executing damaged pointers to
> > functions, or null pointers to functions.
> > Sometimes a gdb command of the form
> >
> >   set pc=$lr
> >
> > would help, except that gdb says
> >
> >  (gdb) set pc=$lr
> >  You can't do that without a process to debug
>
> Try using the frame command, passing it the address of the frame you
> want to examine.

IIRC Ulrich Weigand considers that usage of the frame command to be 
deprecated... I don't know the rationale though.
-- 
[]'s
Thiago Jung Bauermann


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