From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7329 invoked by alias); 23 Feb 2004 06:04:45 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 7317 invoked from network); 23 Feb 2004 06:04:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO mclean.mail.mindspring.net) (207.69.200.57) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 23 Feb 2004 06:04:44 -0000 Received: from user-119a90a.biz.mindspring.com ([66.149.36.10] helo=berman.michael-chastain.com) by mclean.mail.mindspring.net with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 1Av9Ct-0007yg-00; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:04:43 -0500 Received: by berman.michael-chastain.com (Postfix, from userid 502) id 25A2C4B104; Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:04:51 -0500 (EST) To: fnf@redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix gdb.base/gdb1250.exp to work when abort() is in a shared library Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Message-Id: <20040223060451.25A2C4B104@berman.michael-chastain.com> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2004 06:04:00 -0000 From: mec.gnu@mindspring.com (Michael Elizabeth Chastain) X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00630.txt.bz2 I think this would be a bad change. It's entirely reasonable for a user to set a breakpoint on 'abort' or 'exit' or some other libc function in a .gdbinit file or at the beginning of a gdb session. On native i686-pc-linux-gnu, this used to work and then stopped working with a PLT optimization in binutils HEAD. Michael C + 2004-02-22 Fred Fish + + * gdb.base/gdb1250.exp: Run to main before trying to + run to abort.