commit 51dab9e418741ac7065cd5a6ec9b57285e90227c

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=738482

--- a/gdb/printcmd.c

+++ b/gdb/printcmd.c

@@ -1981,6 +1981,10 @@ print_variable_and_value (const char *name, struct symbol *var,

       struct value_print_options opts;

       val = read_var_value (var, frame);

+

+      make_cleanup_restore_selected_frame ();

+      select_frame (frame);

+

       get_user_print_options (&opts);

       common_val_print (val, stream, indent, &opts, current_language);

     }

--- /dev/null

+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/vla-frame.c

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@

+/* This testcase is part of GDB, the GNU debugger.

+

+   Copyright 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

+

+   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

+   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

+   the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or

+   (at your option) any later version.

+

+   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

+   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

+   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

+   GNU General Public License for more details.

+

+   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

+   along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */

+

+#include <string.h>

+

+int

+main (int argc, char **argv)

+{

+  char s[2 + argc];

+  void (*f) (char *) = 0;

+

+  memset (s, 0, sizeof (s));

+  s[0] = 'X';

+

+  f (s);

+  return 0;

+}

--- /dev/null

+++ b/gdb/testsuite/gdb.base/vla-frame.exp

@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@

+# Copyright 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

+#

+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify

+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by

+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or

+# (at your option) any later version.

+#

+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the

+# GNU General Public License for more details.

+#

+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

+

+set testfile vla-frame

+set executable ${testfile}

+

+if { [prepare_for_testing ${testfile}.exp ${executable}] } {

+    return -1

+}

+

+if ![runto_main] {

+    return -1

+}

+

+set test "continue"

+gdb_test_multiple $test $test {

+    -re "Continuing\\.\r\n\r\nProgram received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault\\.\r\n0x0+ in \\?\\? \\(\\)\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {

+	pass $test

+    }

+    -re "\r\n$gdb_prompt $" {

+	untested ${testfile}.exp

+	return

+    }

+}

+

+gdb_test "bt full" "\r\n +s = \"X\\\\000\"\r\n.*"