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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@vmware.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	  teawater <teawater@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [RFA] Handle runtime loader dyn sym resolution in reverse
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2008 04:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <490546A7.9020002@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081025160945.GI29998@adacore.com>

Joel Brobecker wrote:

> 
>> 2008-10-24  Michael Snyder  <msnyder@vmware.com>
>>
>>       * infrun.c (handle_inferior_event): Handle dynamic symbol
>>       resolution in reverse.
> 
> Looks OK to me, but I don't understand why you check that stop_func_start
> is zero. If I were to make a guess, it would be to quickly dismiss
> the case were we reverse stepped into a function call, and so don't
> need to check for trampolines (in other words, a CPU saver).

Correct, but it's more than a CPU saver.
If we are in a function (stop_func_start is non-zero),
then we can set a step_resume breakpoint and continue,
which is way faster than single stepping.

We single-step only when we have to, ie. when we have
actually stepped into the fixup jump table.


  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-10-27  4:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-25  3:04 Michael Snyder
2008-10-25  6:50 ` teawater
2008-10-25 16:10 ` Joel Brobecker
2008-10-26 14:15   ` teawater
2008-10-27  4:48   ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2008-10-27  5:00     ` Michael Snyder

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