bfinish writes to random addresses.

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@false.org
Tue Jul 25 16:53:00 GMT 2006


On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 05:24:32PM +0100, Greg Law wrote:
> >Warning when returning from something with a symbol to something
> >without a symbol is an interesting suggestion.  Does anyone else have
> >comments?  Should this warn?
> >
> >(gdb) bt
> >#0 foo()
> >#1 0x4000000 in ???
> >(gdb) finish
> >
> 
> I was actually suggesting an error rather than a warning.  In this case, 
> it seems that writing into 0x40000000 is almost certainly not what the 
> user wants gdb to be doing.

Surprisingly often it is.  We need to be sparing with errors.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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