Re: Fix foll-fork.exp foll-vfork.exp fork-child-threads.exp

Ulrich Weigand
2008-11-20T16:37:46Z

Pedro Alves wrote:

> On Thursday 20 November 2008 14:28:24, Ulrich Weigand wrote:
>
> > I guess the "regcache" and "gdbarch" variables now also contain stale
> > information. That's not an actual problem right now, as regcache is
> > (currently) not used after this point, and gdbarch (today) will never
> > actually change -- but in order to reduce potential future problems,
> > I think those should also be reset.
>
> Right, how about the attached?

> 2008-11-20 Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
>
> * infrun.c (resume): If following a fork, also reset regcache,
> gdbarch and pc.

Looks good to me, thanks.

As a separate question, I'm wondering why this is the right place to
put the follow-fork logic anyway (and not in handle_inferior_event
like follow-exec ...). Do you know the history of this?

Bye,
Ulrich

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