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From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
To: Andrew Burgess <andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>,
	gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 0/3] Remove some uses of VEC
Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2019 02:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <305c7eed-1ec5-1d49-f2ce-5edb232f6ebe@simark.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1569455609.git.andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>

On 2019-09-25 7:59 p.m., Andrew Burgess wrote:
> Tom raised some good points about patch #3, specifically that some of
> the query functions like VEC_length and VEC_empty will return a sane
> answer even when the vector pointer is NULL.  He also pointed out that
> VEC_free resets theh vector pointer back to NULL.
> 
> This revision of the series is a little more defensive about checking
> for the std::vector pointer being null before dereferencing it.  In
> places where I'm reasonably sure the vector pointer won't be NULL I've
> added an assert - then at least if I'm wrong we'll get a nice error
> rather than a random crash.

Oh, that's a good point.  I gave a quick look at patches 1 and 2, and
they seem good with the extra checks.

About testing, the testsuite contains a bunch of btrace tests in gdb.btrace,
and some more in gdb.python.  It would be good to run those tests on a CPU
that supports Intel BTS and PT (which would mean any Broadwell or more recent
CPU) and a GDB linked against libipt.  I can give it a try if you are unable
to do it for some reason.

Simon



  reply	other threads:[~2019-09-26  2:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-09-25 15:54 [PATCHv2 " Andrew Burgess
2019-09-23 22:09 ` [PATCH 0/2] Remove 2 uses of VEC from gdb Andrew Burgess
2019-09-23 22:09   ` [PATCH 1/2] gdb: Remove a VEC from gdbsupport/btrace-common.h Andrew Burgess
2019-09-24  2:09     ` Simon Marchi
2019-09-23 22:09   ` [PATCH 2/2] gdb: Change a VEC to std::vector in btrace.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-09-24  2:19     ` Simon Marchi
2019-09-24 19:54   ` [PATCH 0/2] Remove 2 uses of VEC from gdb Tom Tromey
2019-09-25 15:54   ` [PATCHv2 1/3] gdb: Remove a VEC from gdbsupport/btrace-common.h Andrew Burgess
2019-09-25 15:54   ` [PATCHv2 3/3] gdb: Remove a use of VEC from dwarf2read.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-09-25 22:08     ` Tom Tromey
2019-09-26  0:00       ` [PATCHv3 0/3] Remove some uses of VEC Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26  2:52         ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2019-09-26 11:41         ` [PATCHv4 2/3] gdb: Change a VEC to std::vector in btrace.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26 11:41         ` [PATCHv4 0/3] Remove some uses of VEC Andrew Burgess
2019-10-01 11:42           ` [PATCHv5 2/3] gdb: Change a VEC to std::vector in btrace.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-10-01 11:42           ` [PATCHv5 3/3] gdb: Remove a use of VEC from dwarf2read.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-10-02 15:51             ` Pedro Alves
2019-10-02 22:21               ` Andrew Burgess
2019-10-03  8:06                 ` Pedro Alves
2019-10-01 11:42           ` [PATCHv5 1/3] gdb: Remove a VEC from gdbsupport/btrace-common.h Andrew Burgess
2019-10-01 19:59             ` Tom Tromey
     [not found]           ` <cover.1569929785.git.andrew.burgess@embecosm.com>
2019-10-01 12:04             ` [PATCHv5 0/3] Remove some uses of VEC Metzger, Markus T
2019-09-26 11:41         ` [PATCHv4 3/3] gdb: Remove a use of VEC from dwarf2read.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26 11:41         ` [PATCHv4 1/3] gdb: Remove a VEC from gdbsupport/btrace-common.h Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26 13:40           ` Metzger, Markus T
2019-09-26  0:00       ` [PATCHv3 2/3] gdb: Change a VEC to std::vector in btrace.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26  8:47         ` Metzger, Markus T
2019-09-26 11:33           ` Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26  0:00       ` [PATCHv3 3/3] gdb: Remove a use of VEC from dwarf2read.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26  0:00       ` [PATCHv3 1/3] gdb: Remove a VEC from gdbsupport/btrace-common.h Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26  8:47         ` Metzger, Markus T
2019-09-26 11:32           ` Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26 13:07             ` Metzger, Markus T
2019-09-25 15:54   ` [PATCHv2 2/3] gdb: Change a VEC to std::vector in btrace.{c,h} Andrew Burgess
2019-09-26  2:35     ` Simon Marchi

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