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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: brobecker@adacore.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [commit] Fix flags type initialization bug
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 21:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608222104.k7ML4D0w031633@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060822204119.GC1060@adacore.com> (message from Joel Brobecker 	on Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:41:19 -0700)

> Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 13:41:19 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> > I'm working on printing proper flags for some registers on SPARC when
> > I hit this.  It makes gdb crash, so perhaps I should put this on the
> > release branch too?
> 
> Is there a way to cause GDB 6.5 to crash, or is only after you
> applied your changes?

This is used in i386-tdep.c since january or so, and I think there is
a risk of having it crash there, but I've never seen it happen.

> Right now, I don't have any plan in making a minor release from
> the 6.5 branch, but I don't mind making one if the fixes of this
> kind keep piling up.

This one alone isn't enough, but if there are a few others like it
that can potentially crash gdb itself, I think we should consider
having a 6.5.1 release.

Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-22 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-22 20:24 Mark Kettenis
2006-08-22 20:57 ` Joel Brobecker
2006-08-22 21:31   ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2006-08-23 17:38     ` Joel Brobecker
2006-08-25  2:24       ` Mark Kettenis
2006-09-01 19:02         ` Joel Brobecker
2006-09-01 21:18           ` Mark Kettenis

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