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Article #6656Trouble with dbx on a SPARC
From: Sean Mc grath
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 1991 10:36
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 1991 10:36
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I an having trouble with dbx on a SPARC 4-65 running SUN OS 4.1. We use
16 bit unsigned integer datatype called UINT16. We #define it to suit the
machine we are running on. Unfortunately, when UINT16s are passed as
paramaters on the stack dbx gets confused. Here is a demo of the problem:
------ CODE starts here --------
#define UINT16 unsigned short
fred(a,b)
UINT16 a,b;
{ a = b; }
main()
{
fred (15,78);
}
------ CODE ends here ---------
I compile this with debugging on using
cc -g test.c
I run up dbx :-
dbx a.out
I set a breakpoint in fred
stop in fred
Run it
run
It stops in fred. So I print a
print a
Answer 0 - incorrect
I tried
print (UINT)a
Answer 0 - incorrect
By the way, the 386i we have gets it right. I think it must be to do with
dbx looking at the wrong 16 bits of the 32 bit integer that is stuffed on
the stack for both a and b. Any ideas???
Sean Mc Grath (sean@fiamass.ie)
12 Clarinda Park North
Dun Laoghaire
Co. Dublin
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cunews!bnrgate!brtph3!brchh104!brchs1!bnr.ca!rice.edu!sun-spots-request From: sean%fiamass.ie@pucc.princeton.edu (Sean Mc grath) Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun Subject: Trouble with dbx on a SPARC Keywords: Software Message-ID: <1404@brchh104.bnr.ca> Date: 23 Jan 91 10:36:34 GMT Sender: news@brchh104.bnr.ca Organization: Sun-Spots Lines: 39 Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 27, message 14 X-Note: Submissions: sun-spots@rice.edu, Admin: sun-spots-request@rice.edu