View registers from stack frames
Andrew Cagney
cagney@gnu.org
Tue Oct 5 13:30:00 GMT 2004
> Hi
>
> With the stack commands (frame, up, down) I can select a different
> stack frame. Local variables and arguments (even with same name)
> have different values, depending on the stack frame number. But it
> seems that registers aren't corrected for previous stack frames. Is
> this correct? e.g. the PC and LR should change their value on every
> frame, and the PC was the last LR. But "info reg" always shows the
> same values. Is there any way to get the previous frame's registers?
>
> When I do "info frame x" I get something like "saved pc 0x..." so at
> least this information is available, why isn't this put into the register
> overview? And what about the other SPRs and GPRs?
You've just described the expected and correct behavior. That makes it
sound like an architecture specific bug. Which architecture system is
this on, and can you post a transcript.
Andrew
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