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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
Cc: Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>,
	gdb-patches ml <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	       Hui Zhu <hui_zhu@mentor.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add fseek to ui-file
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:35:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <50C70C60.6080707@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zk1lel8o.fsf@fleche.redhat.com>

On 12/10/2012 07:54 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Hui" == Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> writes:
> 
> Pedro> I think that if we want to support error handling, then this should
> Pedro> return the fseek result to the caller instead of throwing an exception.
> Pedro> See e.g., the comment in stdio_file_write.
> 
> I wonder whether that comment is correct.

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-12/msg00260.html

And if that didn't crash that way, I think we'd end up with
infinite recursion:

error
  -> ui-file (output exception text)
    -> that fails
       -> error
           -> ui-file (output exception text)
              -> that fails
                 ...

-- 
Pedro Alves


  reply	other threads:[~2012-12-11 10:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-12-06  9:46 Hui Zhu
2012-12-06 21:48 ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-07  8:02   ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-07  9:56     ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-10 10:48       ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-10 19:54         ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-11 10:35           ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2012-12-11 14:35             ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-11 14:39               ` Pedro Alves
2012-12-11 14:58                 ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-07 14:49     ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-10 10:57       ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-10 19:55         ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-11  7:22           ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-12 11:01           ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-12 15:38             ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-13  1:45               ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-14 19:18                 ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-17  3:00                   ` Hui Zhu
2012-12-17 20:04                     ` Tom Tromey
2012-12-18  7:03                       ` Hui Zhu

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