Function argument no longer in register
Orjan Friberg
orjan.friberg@axis.com
Mon Mar 29 14:44:00 GMT 2004
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>I don't know what kind of problem I'm looking at here. Could it be that
>>the debug information is wrong? I'm guessing GDB somehow fails to
>>realize that the function argument is out of scope at this point.
>
>
> Nothing's wrong - eventually, versions of GCC with proper location list
> will tell GDB that the variable is out of scope, but no released
> version does that. I think 3.5 snapshots will.
Ah, ok. Thanks. The setup is a remote stub debugging a Linux kernel,
and the first page (8k for CRIS) is read/write-protected. So, I guess I
need to filter out these bogus reads in the stub to prevent the kernel
from oopsing.
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Orjan Friberg
Axis Communications
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