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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Luc Des Trois Maisons <lmaisons@ca.ibm.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Problems getting symbol information using a convenience register,
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Date: Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:01:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <OF29D3ED1F.E21D654F-ON85257A9A.007715AA-85257A9A.007731ED@ca.ibm.com>	(Luc Des Trois Maisons's message of "Wed, 17 Oct 2012 17:41:54 -0400")
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>>>>> "Luc" == Luc Des Trois Maisons <lmaisons@ca.ibm.com> writes:

Luc> However, I'm having a problem when I try to use the convenience
Luc> register with the 'info symbols' command.  I poked around and I
Luc> found that the convenience register works when set directly with a
Luc> value, but breaks when set using a pointer dereference.

I don't have a ready explanation for the problem.
If you have a self-contained test case, file it in bugzilla.
Otherwise, I guess you could step through sym_info and see what goes
wrong.

Tom