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diff --git a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo index d3e946b..a1f9217 100644 --- a/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo +++ b/gdb/doc/gdb.texinfo @@ -3293,14 +3293,19 @@ impossible for @value{GDBN} to assign numbers properly to all frames. In addition, this can be useful when your program has multiple stacks and switches between them. -@ifset SPARC +@ifclear H8EXCLUSIVE On the SPARC architecture, @code{frame} needs two addresses to select an arbitrary frame: a frame pointer and a stack pointer. + +On the MIPS and Alpha architecture, it needs two addresses: a stack +pointer and a program counter. + +On the 29k architecture, it needs three addresses: a register stack +pointer, a program counter, and a memory stack pointer. @c note to future updaters: this is conditioned on a flag -@c FRAME_SPECIFICATION_DYADIC in the tm-*.h files, currently only used -@c by SPARC, hence the specific attribution. Generalize or list all -@c possibilities if more supported machines start doing this. -@end ifset +@c SETUP_ARBITRARY_FRAME in the tm-*.h files. The above is up to date +@c as of 27 Jan 1994. +@end ifclear @item up @var{n} @kindex up @@ -3381,9 +3386,11 @@ the usual conventions. @item info frame @var{addr} @itemx info f @var{addr} -Print a verbose description of the frame at address @var{addr}, -without selecting that frame. The selected frame remains unchanged by -this command. +Print a verbose description of the frame at address @var{addr}, without +selecting that frame. The selected frame remains unchanged by this +command. This requires the same kind of address (more than one for some +architectures) that you specify in the @code{frame} command. +@xref{Selection, ,Selecting a frame}. @item info args @kindex info args |