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From: "Andrew Burgess" <aburgess@broadcom.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Cc: "Pedro Alves" <palves@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Remove deprecated_throw_reason from internal_verror.
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 2013 10:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <51F8EC6F.7050100@broadcom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51F80F18.8070805@redhat.com>

On 30/07/2013 8:08 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 07/30/2013 05:10 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
>> Removes the use of deprecated_throw_reason from internal_verror.  The user
>> will now get an extra "Command aborted" error message in the case where gdb
>> hits an internal error, and the user decides not to quit.  This feels like
>> an improvement to me as it /might/ not be obvious that choosing to continue
>> the session will still drop you out of whatever command you were attempting
>> at the time.  What do you think?
> 
> ...
> 
>> diff --git a/gdb/utils.c b/gdb/utils.c
>> index 01212ab..a4ce01c 100644
>> --- a/gdb/utils.c
>> +++ b/gdb/utils.c
>> @@ -831,7 +831,7 @@ void
>>  internal_verror (const char *file, int line, const char *fmt, va_list ap)
>>  {
>>    internal_vproblem (&internal_error_problem, file, line, fmt, ap);
>> -  deprecated_throw_reason (RETURN_ERROR);
>> +  throw_error (GENERIC_ERROR, _("Command aborted"));
> 
> That error can still be swallowed by a TRY_CATCH somewhere, and the
> command might proceed.  I think we should throw a RETURN_QUIT instead,
> which has exactly that semantic of cancelling the ongoing command.
> IOW, I think this should call "fatal" instead.

Committed with a call to fatal.

Thanks,
Andrew



  reply	other threads:[~2013-07-31 10:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-07-30 16:09 [PATCH 0/4] Remove deprecated_throw_reason Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 16:10 ` [PATCH 1/4] Remove deprecated_throw_reason from internal_verror Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 19:08   ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-31 10:52     ` Andrew Burgess [this message]
2013-07-30 16:11 ` [PATCH 2/4] Remove deprecated_throw_reason from mips_error Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 19:14   ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-31 12:37     ` Andrew Burgess
2013-07-31 14:44       ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-31 15:37         ` Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 16:12 ` [PATCH 3/4] Remove remaining uses of deprecated_throw_reason Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 19:21   ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-31 12:45     ` Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 16:13 ` [PATCH 4/4] Remove deprecated_throw_reason Andrew Burgess
2013-07-30 19:22   ` Pedro Alves
2013-07-31 15:45     ` Andrew Burgess

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