From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2887 invoked by alias); 11 Jul 2005 18:51:43 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2797 invoked by uid 22791); 11 Jul 2005 18:51:38 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:51:38 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Ds3NN-0001di-PO; Mon, 11 Jul 2005 14:51:33 -0400 Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2005 18:51:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Marcel Moolenaar Cc: Andrew STUBBS , GDB Subject: Re: Invalid registers Message-ID: <20050711185133.GA6213@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Marcel Moolenaar , Andrew STUBBS , GDB References: <20050711154926.GB30937@nevyn.them.org> <94cbbbf6ad84e632126e7a0e59830425@cup.hp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <94cbbbf6ad84e632126e7a0e59830425@cup.hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-07/txt/msg00128.txt.bz2 On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:47:01AM -0700, Marcel Moolenaar wrote: > Given that registers are available when a value has been supplied, > it's logical to assume (a priori) that a register is unavailable > when no value has been supplied. You are talking about a completely different meaning of unavailable than Andrew was. He's talking about unwinding, i.e. registers which have been modified but not saved by an intervening stack frame. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC