From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Denis PILAT <denis.pilat@st.com>
Cc: gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] varobj deletion after the binary has changed
Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 12:45:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070123124457.GA1600@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45B60056.6030704@st.com>
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:32:22PM +0100, Denis PILAT wrote:
> Hi,
>
> We have a bug in one of our gdb target, when the binary changed while
> beeing debugged it appears that some of our varobj refers to invalid
> symbols or type.
>
> I propose a patch that delete all varobj when symbols are reloaded. May
> be there is a better place to do that but I think we must do that
> somewhere, don't you ?
The right thing to do is probably to figure out where the
invalid references come from and fix them - probably by re-evaluating
expressions at the next -var-update. Deleting things behind the front
end's back is a bad policy.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-23 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-23 12:32 Denis PILAT
2007-01-23 12:45 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-01-23 12:52 ` Vladimir Prus
2007-01-23 14:49 ` Denis PILAT
2007-01-24 21:49 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-24 22:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-24 22:08 ` Frédéric Riss
2007-01-24 22:18 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-24 22:52 ` Frédéric Riss
2007-01-24 23:14 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-25 2:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-25 20:50 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-26 7:25 ` Denis PILAT
2007-01-23 17:20 ` Denis PILAT
2007-01-25 17:28 ` Denis PILAT
2007-01-25 22:31 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-25 23:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-01-29 12:39 ` Denis PILAT
2007-01-29 22:12 ` Nick Roberts
2007-01-30 8:49 ` Denis PILAT
2007-01-31 19:07 ` Denis PILAT
2007-01-31 21:29 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-01 9:49 ` Denis PILAT
2007-02-08 16:41 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-08 19:33 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-08 19:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-02-09 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2007-02-12 21:10 ` Denis PILAT
2007-02-13 0:11 ` Nick Roberts
2007-02-13 8:26 ` Denis PILAT
2007-02-20 16:06 ` Andreas Schwab
2007-02-20 16:17 ` Denis PILAT
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