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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: pedro@codesourcery.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, msnyder@vmware.com,
	jan.kratochvil@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] i386-tdep.c, check target_read_memory for error.
Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2011 19:41:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201103081925.p28JPKb4008277@glazunov.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201103081858.43441.pedro@codesourcery.com> (message from Pedro	Alves on Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:58:43 +0000)

> From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 18:58:43 +0000
> 
> On Tuesday 08 March 2011 18:37:55, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > @@ -1221,7 +1231,8 @@ i386_skip_noop (CORE_ADDR pc)
> >        if (op == 0x90) 
> >         {
> >           pc += 1;
> > -         target_read_memory (pc, &op, 1);
> > +         if (target_read_memory (pc, &op, 1))
> > +           return pc;
> 
> I think you're meant to return PC as it was at function
> start.  Note the pc += 1 above.  There are other instances
> in the patch.

Those are actually fine.  Skipping nop instructions is harmless, even
if we get stuck somewhere in the middle.


  reply	other threads:[~2011-03-08 19:27 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-03-04 21:38 Michael Snyder
2011-03-06 14:56 ` Jan Kratochvil
2011-03-06 17:00   ` Mark Kettenis
2011-03-06 22:34     ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-08  2:35       ` Mark Kettenis
2011-03-08 18:47         ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-08 18:59           ` Mark Kettenis
2011-03-08 19:27           ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-08 19:41             ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2011-03-08 19:50               ` Pedro Alves
2011-03-09  1:32                 ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-06 18:48   ` Michael Snyder
2011-03-06 19:00     ` Jan Kratochvil

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