Re: Patch for the gdb problem «Value being assigned to is no longer active»

["Yann E. MORIN" <yann dot morin dot 1998 at anciens dot enib dot fr>]

Thomas,
All,

On Tuesday 19 May 2009 14:04:26 Thomas Petazzoni wrote:
> Today, while using a cross-gdb (of course generated by crosstool-ng)
> through OpenOCD to control the JTAG of an ARM CPU, I encountered the
> following issue while trying to change register values :
> 
> (gdb) set $pc=0x23F00000
> Value being assigned to is no longer active.
> 
> This problem is known, and a bug report is available at
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436037.
> 
> The corresponding fix is available at
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/gdb/gdb-6.8-bz436037-reg-no-longer-active.patch?revision=1.1
> 
> I've integrated this patch in patches/gdb/ of crosstool-ng and rebuilt
> the toolchain. I can confirm that the problem no longer occurs.
> Maybe it would be a good idea to include this patch in crosstool-ng ?

Applied:
 /trunk, revision 1538.
 /branches/1.4, revision 1539

Fix against current stable available at:
http://ymorin.is-a-geek.org/download/crosstool-ng/01-fixes/1.4.1/000-gdb-reg-no-longer-active.patch

Thank you.

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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