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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>
To: Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@shout.net>
Cc: ac131313@cygnus.com, fnf@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Fix problem with watchpoint test in gdb.base/commands.exp
Date: Thu, 02 May 2002 11:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3CD17FFF.EA7ECEA@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200205021548.g42Fm0N21089@duracef.shout.net>

Michael Elizabeth Chastain wrote:
> 
> Andrew Cagney writes:
> 
> > ... so there may not necessarily be a frame change.
> 
> Right.
> 
> > However, if the frame has gone (or is being destroyed) the variable
> > is out of scope.
> 
> The problem is with the recursive case, where there are several frames
> which map to the same line numbers, and several instances of the variable.
> gdb could have bugs where it creates a watchpoint for one of these frames,
> but then deletes it when an inferior frame exits.  With this patch,
> the test suite wouldn't detect such a bug.

Right, I agree.


  reply	other threads:[~2002-05-02 18:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-02  8:48 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-02 11:22 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-05-02  8:34 Michael Elizabeth Chastain
2002-05-02  8:43 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-05-02  8:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-02 11:23   ` Michael Snyder
2002-05-02 23:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-05-01 16:48 Fred Fish
2002-05-01 16:58 ` Michael Snyder

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