patches/gdb/6.8/130-reg-no-longer-active.patch
author Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>
Sun Jul 11 22:23:34 2010 +0200 (2010-07-11)
changeset 2021 3e52a1510f87
permissions -rw-r--r--
debug/gdb: Fix compilation for Mingw hosts

GDB requires PDcurses instead of ncurses while running on Windows.
So, do not always compile ncurses in case GDB needs to build.

PDcurses is provided by an earlier build step and is not described in
this file.

Signed-off-by: Remy Bohmer <linux@bohmer.net>
[yann.morin.1998@anciense.nib.fr: we already have a way to detect ncurses usage]
Signed-off-by: "Yann E. MORIN" <yann.morin.1998@anciens.enib.fr>
     1 Fix bug reported by Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com>:
     2 See: http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2009-05/msg00055.html
     3      https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436037
     4 
     5 Fix from: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/gdb/gdb-6.8-bz436037-reg-no-longer-active.patch?revision=1.1
     6 
     7 diff -d -urpN src.0/gdb/valops.c src.1/gdb/valops.c
     8 --- src.0/gdb/valops.c	2008-07-27 04:00:03.000000000 +0200
     9 +++ src.1/gdb/valops.c	2008-07-31 15:17:42.000000000 +0200
    10 @@ -813,10 +813,18 @@ value_assign (struct value *toval, struc
    11  	struct frame_info *frame;
    12  	int value_reg;
    13  
    14 -	/* Figure out which frame this is in currently.  */
    15 -	frame = frame_find_by_id (VALUE_FRAME_ID (toval));
    16  	value_reg = VALUE_REGNUM (toval);
    17  
    18 +	/* Figure out which frame this is in currently.  */
    19 +	frame = frame_find_by_id (VALUE_FRAME_ID (toval));
    20 +	/* "set $reg+=1" should work on programs with no debug info,
    21 +	   but frame_find_by_id returns NULL here (RH bug 436037).
    22 +	   Use current frame, it represents CPU state in this case.
    23 +	   If frame_find_by_id is changed to do it internally
    24 +	   (it is contemplated there), remove this.  */
    25 +	if (!frame)
    26 +	  frame = get_current_frame ();
    27 +	/* Probably never happens.  */
    28  	if (!frame)
    29  	  error (_("Value being assigned to is no longer active."));
    30