From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13423 invoked by alias); 29 Oct 2011 20:49:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 13415 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Oct 2011 20:49:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.2 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il (HELO mtaout20.012.net.il) (80.179.55.166) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:49:14 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LTU00G00HRO2M00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:49:13 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.124.128.216]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LTU00FVOHU0OY60@a-mtaout20.012.net.il>; Sat, 29 Oct 2011 22:49:13 +0200 (IST) Date: Sun, 30 Oct 2011 06:39:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: Specify frame by address In-reply-to: <201110291843.p9TIhPoK012445@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> To: Mark Kettenis Cc: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: <83ehxv8qwn.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83k47n90xn.fsf@gnu.org> <20111029174638.GA27749@host1.jankratochvil.net> <83ipn78ym5.fsf@gnu.org> <201110291843.p9TIhPoK012445@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-10/txt/msg00224.txt.bz2 > Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2011 20:43:25 +0200 (CEST) > From: Mark Kettenis > CC: jan.kratochvil@redhat.com, gdb@sourceware.org > > > I hoped that I could reference the frame by the PC address. > > That wouldn't work. Functions are sometimes called recursively, so > diffrerent frames may end up with the same PC address. That's not a problem in my use case, because I need the innermost invocation anyway. Thanks for the other info.