Re: View registers from stack frames

[Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese@indel.ch>]

>> >>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.
>> 
>> I'm using a self built gdb-6.1.1 for PPC-targets and cygwin. The
>> communication with the target is over a stub-server to a PPC-board.
>
>For PPC, try 6.2 instead.
>
>As Andrew already explained, this is what is supposed to happen.  It
>did not used to work but was fixed by the new frame architecture.

Ok, I will try 6.2 then.

Thanks

bye  Fabi