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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Pierre Muller <pierre.muller@ics-cnrs.unistra.fr>,
	       gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: catch SIGSEGV in the demangler
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 16:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obgm8nbj.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50F93081.1090905@redhat.com> (Pedro Alves's message of "Fri, 18	Jan 2013 11:22:41 +0000")

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

Pedro> The original idea was to do return instead of raise:
Pedro> +static void
Pedro> +handle_segv (int sig)
Pedro> +{
Pedro> +  struct gdb_exception except;
Pedro> +
Pedro> +  if (!in_demangler)
Pedro> +    {
Pedro> +      signal (sig, SIG_DFL);
Pedro> +      return;
Pedro> +    }

This works fine, but has the effect of causing gdb to ignore an explicit
'kill -SEGV'.  I had to hack "maint dump-me" to really see it work.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-01-18 16:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-14 20:15 RFC: " Tom Tromey
2013-01-16 22:16 ` Pierre Muller
     [not found] ` <19236.9665638127$1358374641@news.gmane.org>
2013-01-17 19:56   ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-18 11:22     ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-18 15:01       ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-18 15:41         ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-18 16:09           ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-18 17:56             ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-18 18:09               ` Tom Tromey
2013-01-18 16:31       ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2013-01-18 16:59         ` Pedro Alves
2013-01-18 17:34     ` Tom Tromey

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