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From: "Andrew Burgess" <aburgess@broadcom.com>
To: "gdb-patches@sourceware.org" <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: "Pedro Alves" <palves@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [1/2] value_fetch_lazy - ensure parent is not lazy before accessing.
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2013 15:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F7DA42.2000109@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F7D171.4010909@redhat.com>

On 30/07/2013 3:45 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 07/11/2013 03:34 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> 
> The:
> 
>> -      if (!value_bits_valid (val,
>> +      if (!value_bits_valid (parent,
> 
> change gave me pause, as it wasn't mentioned in the email.
> It just looked like a mistake in your patch, as one would
> only expect the new value_fetch_lazy call, and nothing else.
> But, looking deeper, AFAICS, that change is correct, we were
> looking at the wrong value, even if the lazy issue didn't exist.
> Please correct me if I'm wrong.  (I'd have preferred that bit to
> have been a separate, preparatory change with its own
> justification, or at least that this had been mentioned in the
> email.  Don't assume what's obvious to you is obvious to others.)

Apologies for the poor description in the email.  You did figure out
what I intended.

I committed the fix, with a slightly revised ChangeLog message to
emphasise the two aspects of the patch:

gdb/ChangeLog

	* value.c (value_fetch_lazy): Ensure parent value is not lazy
	before checking which bits of the parent, not the child, value are
	valid.


Thanks,
Andrew


      reply	other threads:[~2013-07-30 15:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-11 14:35 Andrew Burgess
2013-07-25 10:44 ` [PING] " Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 14:45 ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-30 15:23   ` Andrew Burgess [this message]

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