From: Gary Benson <gbenson@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>,
gdb-patches@sourceware.org, aburgess@broadcom.com,
xdje42@gmail.com, fw@deneb.enyo.de,
mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl, tromey@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2 v2] Demangler crash handler
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 10:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140522103723.GA15598@blade.nx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <537A6C81.5040203@redhat.com>
Pedro Alves wrote:
> Wouldn't a new "set debug demangle on" option, that would make
> GDB output:
>
> (gdb) bt / whatever-gdb-command-that-triggers-demangling
> demangling _ZN2CV1mEi ... CV::m(int)
> demangling _Zwhatever ... <NULL>
>
> be just as helpful, and, even potentially be helpful to debug
> scenarios where GDB/libiberty might get the demangling wrong,
> but not cause a crash?
It would be as helpful for obtaining the symbol, although you would
get a lot more output (hundreds of thousands/millions of lines vs one
line). It would not help the user to debug their program because GDB
would still crash.
Thanks,
Gary
--
http://gbenson.net/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-22 10:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-05-19 11:48 Gary Benson
2014-05-19 15:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 15:48 ` Gary Benson
2014-05-19 16:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-19 19:05 ` Gary Benson
2014-05-19 20:41 ` Pedro Alves
2014-05-20 2:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-05-22 10:37 ` Gary Benson [this message]
2014-05-25 12:59 ` Florian Weimer
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