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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: "Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Fix foll-fork.exp foll-vfork.exp fork-child-threads.exp
Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2008 01:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200811201506.04087.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200811201428.mAKESPGZ013059@d12av02.megacenter.de.ibm.com>

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On Thursday 20 November 2008 14:28:24, Ulrich Weigand wrote:

> I guess the "regcache" and "gdbarch" variables now also contain stale
> information.  That's not an actual problem right now, as regcache is
> (currently) not used after this point, and gdbarch (today) will never
> actually change -- but in order to reduce potential future problems,
> I think those should also be reset.

Right, how about the attached?

-- 
Pedro Alves

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2008-11-20  Pedro Alves  <pedro@codesourcery.com>

	* infrun.c (resume): If following a fork, also reset regcache,
	gdbarch and pc.

---
 gdb/infrun.c |    6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

Index: src/gdb/infrun.c
===================================================================
--- src.orig/gdb/infrun.c	2008-11-20 14:59:05.000000000 +0000
+++ src/gdb/infrun.c	2008-11-20 15:03:21.000000000 +0000
@@ -965,10 +965,13 @@ resume (int step, enum target_signal sig
 {
   int should_resume = 1;
   struct cleanup *old_cleanups = make_cleanup (resume_cleanups, 0);
+
+  /* Note that these must be reset if we follow a fork below.  */
   struct regcache *regcache = get_current_regcache ();
   struct gdbarch *gdbarch = get_regcache_arch (regcache);
   struct thread_info *tp = inferior_thread ();
   CORE_ADDR pc = regcache_read_pc (regcache);
+
   QUIT;
 
   if (debug_infrun)
@@ -1057,6 +1060,9 @@ a command like `return' or `jump' to con
       /* Following a child fork will change our notion of current
 	 thread.  */
       tp = inferior_thread ();
+      regcache = get_current_regcache ();
+      gdbarch = get_regcache_arch (regcache);
+      pc = regcache_read_pc (regcache);
       break;
 
     case TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD:

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-20 15:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-20 19:15 Pedro Alves
2008-11-20 23:52 ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-11-21  1:35   ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2008-11-21  1:49     ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-11-21  2:09       ` Pedro Alves
2008-11-21 11:40         ` Ulrich Weigand
2008-11-21 12:58           ` Pedro Alves
2008-12-01 19:01 ` Michael Snyder
2008-12-01 20:56   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-12-01 22:36     ` Michael Snyder
2008-12-01 21:06   ` Pedro Alves
2008-12-01 22:38     ` Michael Snyder

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