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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [downstream patch FYI] workaround stale frame_info * (PR 13866)
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 19:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877gw9gv0c.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FB68E47.1080903@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 18	May 2012 19:00:39 +0100")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

Pedro> It seems to me that combining the both points, we should be able
Pedro> to get back the old behavior, where calling a breakpoint
Pedro> insertion function wouldn't invalidate the frame chain.

That would definitely be an improvement.

The thinking behind my approach was that we would replace crashing bugs
involving a stale cache with performance bugs (and maybe not even
those).  I think this would be friendlier for users.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2012-05-18 19:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-04 19:14 Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-18 17:44 ` Tom Tromey
2012-05-18 18:01   ` Pedro Alves
2012-05-18 18:04     ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-05-18 19:16     ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2012-06-05 19:17 ` Pedro Alves
2012-06-05 19:39   ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-06-05 19:41     ` Pedro Alves
2012-06-05 19:50     ` Pedro Alves
2012-06-06 19:38     ` Tom Tromey
2012-06-06 20:16       ` Pedro Alves
2012-06-05 19:24 ` Pedro Alves
2012-06-05 19:52   ` Pedro Alves

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