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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>,
	 gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
	 Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
	 Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] -break-insert -d
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 18:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901261751.38003.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901261614.25050.vladimir@codesourcery.com>

On Monday 26 January 2009 13:14:24, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> Presently, the -break-insert command always creates enabled breakpoint. Marc has noticed
> that in Eclipse, with non-stop mode, this case lead to races. Specifically, if a breakpoint
> is disabled in UI, then Eclipse first inserts a breakpoint, and then makes it disabled. So,
> there's a window when the breakpoint is inserted in the target. One possible solution is
> to modify Eclipse to never insert disabled breakpoint in GDB. However, this special-casing
> has to be done in every frontend, and GDB-side solution is better. The below patch implements
> new -d option to the -break-insert command, which causes the newly created breakpoints to be
> disabled.
> 
> Is the breakpoint.c change OK. 

Looks fine to me.

> Any comments on MI changes? 

-- 
Pedro Alves


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From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>,
	 gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com,
	 Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>,
	 Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFA] -break-insert -d
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200901261751.38003.pedro@codesourcery.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20090126175000.1yksFJ4ktHqxCTU-462updJ16YkGQ8YKaffZN_r2WUY@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200901261614.25050.vladimir@codesourcery.com>

On Monday 26 January 2009 13:14:24, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> 
> Presently, the -break-insert command always creates enabled breakpoint. Marc has noticed
> that in Eclipse, with non-stop mode, this case lead to races. Specifically, if a breakpoint
> is disabled in UI, then Eclipse first inserts a breakpoint, and then makes it disabled. So,
> there's a window when the breakpoint is inserted in the target. One possible solution is
> to modify Eclipse to never insert disabled breakpoint in GDB. However, this special-casing
> has to be done in every frontend, and GDB-side solution is better. The below patch implements
> new -d option to the -break-insert command, which causes the newly created breakpoints to be
> disabled.
> 
> Is the breakpoint.c change OK. 

Looks fine to me.

> Any comments on MI changes? 

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2009-01-26 17:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-01-26 13:14 Vladimir Prus
2009-01-26 18:47 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2009-01-26 17:50   ` Pedro Alves
2009-01-30 16:30   ` Vladimir Prus
2009-01-30 16:39     ` Vladimir Prus
2009-01-30 17:41     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-01-30 17:18       ` Eli Zaretskii

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