From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11390 invoked by alias); 10 May 2011 02:03:36 -0000 Received: (qmail 11218 invoked by uid 22791); 10 May 2011 02:03:35 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Tue, 10 May 2011 02:02:54 +0000 Received: (qmail 14717 invoked from network); 10 May 2011 02:02:53 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?192.168.0.102?) (yao@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 10 May 2011 02:02:53 -0000 Message-ID: <4DC89CC7.4070402@codesourcery.com> Date: Tue, 10 May 2011 02:03:00 -0000 From: Yao Qi User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110223 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tom Tromey CC: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: fix `gdb -write' case References: <4DC75B31.2020501@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2011-05/txt/msg00236.txt.bz2 On 05/09/2011 10:53 PM, Tom Tromey wrote: > Here is Jan's one-line reproducer: > > echo 'char s[]="a";main(){return s[0]=='"'a';}"|gcc -o v -x c - -g;./v;echo $?;~/redhat/gdb-6.8/gdb/gdb -nx -write ./v -ex 'set var s="b"' -ex q;./v;echo $? Is this patch to fix bugs against gdb 6.8? I am still unable to reproduce this problem on gdb 20110505-cvs. $ ./gdb/gdb -nx -write ~/Work/gdb-write (gdb) set var s="b" evaluation of this expression requires the target program to be active (gdb) b main Breakpoint 1 at 0x80483b7: file gdb-write.c, line 3. (gdb) run Starting program: /home/yao/Work/gdb-write BFD: reopening /home/yao/Work/gdb-write: Text file busy [This message above repeats] Breakpoint 1, main () at gdb-write.c:3 3 main(){return s[0]=='a';} (gdb) set var s="b" BFD: reopening /home/yao/Work/gdb-write: Text file busy .... Invalid cast. Is it a separate issue? -- Yao (齐尧)