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From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, tromey@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch] Replace reread_symbols by load+free calls
Date: Sun, 18 Dec 2011 11:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111218114140.GA22534@host2.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200908150010.00090.pedro@codesourcery.com>

On Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:09:59 +0200, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On Friday 14 August 2009 23:34:31, Tom Tromey wrote:
> 
> > I realize you pulled this patch from consideration.  But, FWIW, I tend
> > to think it is a good idea, because it ensures that all the hooks and
> > observers will be run identically in both cases.
> 
> I have to say that I didn't think it was a good idea, because of the
> way the change ties the objfiles to solib.c, and the fact that
> it makes it so that an objfile pointer becomes more volatile.

This is correct, because when someone holds a pointer to volatile data
valgrind should report it as invalid.  And each such code needs to be reviewed
anyway so changing it along is not such a concern.


Regards,
Jan


      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-12-18 11:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-05-27  0:12 [patch] Use mmap instead of obstack_alloc for dwarf debug sections Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-05-28  1:16 ` Tom Tromey
2009-05-28 16:57   ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-05-30 22:36     ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-11  1:40       ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-11  1:43         ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-16 19:19           ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-16 20:43             ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-16 20:59               ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-16 21:07                 ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-18  9:20                   ` Ken Werner
2009-06-18 14:06                     ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-18 14:11                       ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-18 15:02                       ` Ken Werner
2009-06-18 16:33                         ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-19  7:10                           ` Ken Werner
2009-06-23 15:03                   ` [patch] Fix a reread_symbols regression by mmap [Re: [patch] Use mmap instead of obstack_alloc for dwarf debug sections.] Jan Kratochvil
2009-06-23 17:35                     ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-23 18:08                     ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-23 18:21                       ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-06-23 20:00                         ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-25 19:21                           ` [patch] Replace reread_symbols by load+free calls Jan Kratochvil
2009-06-25 19:57                             ` Pedro Alves
2009-06-25 23:25                               ` Jan Kratochvil
2009-08-02 21:04                                 ` cancelled: " Jan Kratochvil
2009-08-14 23:09                             ` Tom Tromey
2009-08-14 23:12                               ` Pedro Alves
2009-08-17 15:41                                 ` Tom Tromey
2011-12-18 11:54                                 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]

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