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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA/i386] pb reading insns if breakpoints still inserted
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 14:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060429142812.GA21067@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <uejzgfop1.fsf@gnu.org>

On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 05:20:42PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Isn't this a general problem, not limited to x86?  That is, if there's
> a breakpoint inserted in the prologue, wouldn't other prologue
> analyzers be fooled?
> 
> If this is indeed a general problem, I suggest we fix it in a general
> fashion, not for some specific platform.

That's why many prologue analyzers already use the memory reading
functions which ignore breakpoints; this just improves our consistency.

Now, you could make a reasonable argument that the default when reading
memory ought to be to ignore breakpoints.  But that would be a much
harder change to test; we'd need to catch all the places which do need
to see breakpoints - I can only think of one off the top of my head,
but I'm sure there are more.  So, I would suggest making it separately.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2006-04-29 14:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-04-28 17:12 Joel Brobecker
2006-04-28 17:54 ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-28 18:40   ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-28 18:48     ` Joel Brobecker
2006-04-28 20:58     ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-28 21:09       ` Mark Kettenis
2006-04-28 21:13         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-28 21:42           ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-28 21:54             ` Joel Brobecker
2006-04-28 21:49           ` Joel Brobecker
2006-04-28 22:00             ` Jim Blandy
2006-04-29 14:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-29 14:28   ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2006-04-29 14:51     ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-29 15:06       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-04-29 16:57         ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-04-29 23:14           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-01 16:36 ` Mark Kettenis
2006-05-01 17:06   ` Joel Brobecker
2006-05-05 18:16   ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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