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-rw-r--r--gdb/stack.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/stack.c b/gdb/stack.c
index 95ecdee4..77b7602 100644
--- a/gdb/stack.c
+++ b/gdb/stack.c
@@ -728,6 +728,11 @@ parse_frame_specification (char *frame_exp)
tmp_cleanup = make_cleanup (xfree, addr_string);
+ /* NOTE: we call parse_and_eval and then both
+ value_as_long and value_as_pointer rather than calling
+ parse_and_eval_long and parse_and_eval_address because
+ of the issue of potential side effects from evaluating
+ the expression. */
vp = parse_and_eval (addr_string);
if (numargs == 0)
level = value_as_long (vp);