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From: "Dave Korn" <dk@artimi.com>
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> -----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?

    cheers, 
      DaveK
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