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Re: store.exp failure on i686-linux with newer gcc's
- From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
- To: Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>
- Cc: gdb <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:58:11 -0700
- Subject: Re: store.exp failure on i686-linux with newer gcc's
- References: <e394668d0909031450te808c15h87a2f884b38a7281@mail.gmail.com>
> value->lval is set to not_lval and value_assign doesn't like that so
> gdb refuses to set the variable with "Left operand of assignment is
> not an lvalue."
IIRC, this is a know limitation in GDB. Daniel wrote the piece that
allows us to read variables that are spread across several locations
like this. But i don't think anyone has thought about being able
to write to such a variable.
--
Joel