Fix bug reported by Thomas Petazzoni : See: http://sourceware.org/ml/crossgcc/2009-05/msg00055.html https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436037 Fix from: http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/gdb/gdb-6.8-bz436037-reg-no-longer-active.patch?revision=1.1 diff -d -urpN src.0/gdb/valops.c src.1/gdb/valops.c --- src.0/gdb/valops.c 2008-07-27 04:00:03.000000000 +0200 +++ src.1/gdb/valops.c 2008-07-31 15:17:42.000000000 +0200 @@ -813,10 +813,18 @@ value_assign (struct value *toval, struc struct frame_info *frame; int value_reg; - /* Figure out which frame this is in currently. */ - frame = frame_find_by_id (VALUE_FRAME_ID (toval)); value_reg = VALUE_REGNUM (toval); + /* Figure out which frame this is in currently. */ + frame = frame_find_by_id (VALUE_FRAME_ID (toval)); + /* "set $reg+=1" should work on programs with no debug info, + but frame_find_by_id returns NULL here (RH bug 436037). + Use current frame, it represents CPU state in this case. + If frame_find_by_id is changed to do it internally + (it is contemplated there), remove this. */ + if (!frame) + frame = get_current_frame (); + /* Probably never happens. */ if (!frame) error (_("Value being assigned to is no longer active."));