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Re: Set ADDR
Andrew Cagney writes:
> PS: If anyone things this is just a PPC bug:
>
> (top-gdb) info registers
> eax 0xbffff864 -1073743772
> ecx 0x0 0
> ...
> (top-gdb) set $ecx = 0
> (top-gdb) info registers
> eax 0x0 0
> ecx 0x0 0
> ...
>
> So I guess two things:
>
> - GDB's testsuite doesn't cover this
The altivec-regs.exp file covers this, and, soon, a booke-regs.exp.
But nothing else.
> - Someone modifying a register or register variable is a pretty rare
> occurance
>
Yeah. I noticed this failure last night while retesting the booke code,
but by morning it was fixed! Miracle!
> Perhaphs I should add a sleep(1) to the value write code and see how
> long it takes someone to notice that ;-)
>
> enjoy,
> Andrew