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From: Tristan Gingold <gingold@adacore.com>
To: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFA Darwin]: handle simultaneous signal posting and single-stepping
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:42:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <09E70B0B-1B71-443C-B5A2-23F1FDE7E06D@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200907070943.n679hRt8029389@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl>


On Jul 7, 2009, at 11:43 AM, Mark Kettenis wrote:
>>
>> This patch fixes the issue by first single-stepping and keeping in
>> mind that a signal has to be posted.
>
> I'm not sure that single-stepping before sending the signal is right.
> This means we'll execute an instruction (which potentially affects the
> way signals are handled) before the program actually sees the signal.
>
> I think a better way to do this is to continue with a signal while
> keeping the breakpoints inserted, and deal with hitting the breakpoint
> again in the appropriate way.

Doesn't this change the gdb behaviour ?  I have no strong opinion on  
this but this is
generally a concern.

> Also, I think this needs to be handled in the generic code.  I'm
> facing the same problem on OpenBSD.

Interesting.  So I have to work on infrun.c...

Thanks for the comment,
Tristan.


      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-07 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-07  8:52 Tristan Gingold
2009-07-07  9:45 ` Mark Kettenis
2009-07-07 10:42   ` Tristan Gingold [this message]

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