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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Dave Korn <dk@artimi.com>
Cc: 'Mark Kettenis' <kettenis@chello.nl>,
	eliz@gnu.org, cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [6.2] PROBLEMS file
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2004 15:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040722130301.GA14326@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <NUTMEGVnfqTWW06831a000009f1@NUTMEG.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>

On Thu, Jul 22, 2004 at 01:13:19PM +0100, Dave Korn wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: gdb-owner On Behalf Of Mark Kettenis
> > Sent: 21 July 2004 22:00
> 
> > shouldn't terminate the backtrace.  And %eip == 0 can happen in the
> > case of a null-pointer function call.
> 
>   Does it?  I thought the stored eip on the stack points to the return
> address of the caller, which is the byte after the call instruction, so eip
> = 0 would only occur in a stack frame if there was a call instruction at
> 0xfffffffb that had just been executed?

Consider a SIGSEGV handler invoked in response to a NULL pointer call.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-22 13:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-19  3:51 Andrew Cagney
2004-07-19 21:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-21 21:12   ` Mark Kettenis
2004-07-21 22:05     ` H. J. Lu
2004-07-22 20:58       ` Mark Kettenis
2004-07-22 21:33         ` Joel Brobecker
2004-07-22 21:38         ` H. J. Lu
2004-07-21 22:17     ` Andrew Cagney
2004-07-22  7:13       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-22 13:04     ` Dave Korn
2004-07-22 15:17       ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-07-22 12:14 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-22 18:28 ` Joel Brobecker
2004-07-22 19:26   ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-22 20:51     ` Mark Kettenis
2004-07-23  9:24       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-23 11:22         ` Mark Kettenis
2004-07-23 12:03           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-23 12:13             ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-23 12:16             ` Dave Korn
2004-07-23 13:36             ` Mark Kettenis
2004-07-23 16:17               ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-07-23  5:44 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2004-07-23 20:44 ` Andrew Cagney

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