Re: [PATCH] disassembly fixes

[Elena Zannoni <ezannoni@redhat.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz writes:
 > On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 06:04:48PM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote:
 > > 
 > > A few fixes for the new disassembler. I'll commit in a day or so.
 > > 
 > > 2003-04-04  Elena Zannoni  <ezannoni@redhat.com>
 > > 
 > > 	* disasm.c (dump_insns):  Move variables inside loop, or they will
 > >         be freed more than once, causing wild memory corruptions.
 > > 	(gdb_disassembly): Look for the substring "-thread",
 > >         instead of "-threads" in the target name, to make sure to find
 > >         the 'multi-thread' target.  Also, make sure we do the right thing 
 > >         with the "core" target.
 > 
 > While you're in there, any comments on:
 >   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-02/msg00153.html
 > ?
 > 

Hmm, yes, I think that logic is a bit screwed up (it came from gdbtk,
and maybe there it was more appropriate), I have no objections if you
want to revisit the heuristics.  n hte meantime I would apply these
changes anyway because disassembly with core files and threaded
programs just doesn't work at all.

elena


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