From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 10085 invoked by alias); 25 Jan 2007 02:41:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 10041 invoked by uid 22791); 25 Jan 2007 02:41:33 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:41:26 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1H9uYA-0002iV-Oy; Wed, 24 Jan 2007 21:41:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 02:41:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Roberts Cc: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Riss , Denis PILAT , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] varobj deletion after the binary has changed Message-ID: <20070125024118.GA10014@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=E9d=E9ric?= Riss , Denis PILAT , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <45B60056.6030704@st.com> <20070123124457.GA1600@nevyn.them.org> <45B61B41.90509@st.com> <17847.54349.654238.452957@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <1169676493.5160.14.camel@funkylaptop> <17847.56114.220249.307621@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17847.56114.220249.307621@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2007-01/txt/msg00517.txt.bz2 On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:18:26AM +1300, Nick Roberts wrote: > The execution proceeds as normal and correctly reports when a_global changes. > If there was a buggy memory access I presume it would manifest itself in the > execution of GDB in some way. No, that's a bad assumption to make about invalid memory access. It's often impossible to detect it without some luck or a tool like valgrind. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery