Re: [RFA] let record_resume fail immediately on error

[Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>]

Hi Joel,

Sorry to disturb you.  Ping
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-09/msg00231.html

Thanks,
Hui

On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:05, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 00:55, Michael Snyder<msnyder@vmware.com> wrote:
>> Hui Zhu wrote:
>>>
>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 15:25, Hui Zhu<teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> If GDB call error in record_resume, user cannot keep debug the inferior.
>>>>
>>>> Hui
>>>>
>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 15:23, Hui Zhu<teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> The "record_resume_error" in gdb-cvs is to make user after get a error
>>>>> of record_message, they can "record stop" close the record and keep
>>>>> debug the inferior.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Hui
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 14:58, Joel Brobecker<brobecker@adacore.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>   if (!RECORD_IS_REPLAY)
>>>>>>>     {
>>>>>>>       if (do_record_message (get_current_regcache ()))
>>>>>>> -        {
>>>>>>> -          record_resume_error = 0;
>>>>>>> -        }
>>>>>>> -      else
>>>>>>> -        {
>>>>>>> -          record_resume_error = 1;
>>>>>>> -          return;
>>>>>>> -        }
>>>>>>> +     internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__,
>>>>>>> +                     _("record_resume: do_record_message failed."));
>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Forgive me if I'm wrong, as I don't know the record.c code at all, but
>>>>>> I cannot help but think that the internal_error is suspicious here.
>>>>>> Why is this an internal_error?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> --
>>>>>> Joel
>>>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi guys,
>>>
>>> I make a patch that make "record_resume_error" work better.  I did
>>> some test.  It seems better than before.
>>
>> Could you explain what you mean by better?
>> I mean, what behavior are you looking for here?
>>
>> Here is the behavior that I see --- I am making a recording,
>> I say "continue", and after a while this "record_resume_error"
>> is triggered, and gdb stops and says "No more reverse-execution history."
>>
>> I would never expect to see that message during recording.
>
> In before, GDB cannot throw error in record_resume (It just in my
> memory, maybe I am wrong).
> If we try to do it, it will get:
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
> Cannot execute this command while the selected thread is running.
> So I add record_resume_error to let record_wait to handle it.
>
> But record_wait cannot call error too.  So I let it:
>          /* If record_resume get error, return directly.  */
>          status->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED;
>          status->value.sig = TARGET_SIGNAL_0;
>          return inferior_ptid;
>
> But I found that record_resume can call error now.  So I make a new
> patch for it.
>
> Could you help me try it?
>
>
> Thanks,
> Hui
>
> 2009-09-09  Hui Zhu  <teawater@gmail.com>
>
>        * record.c (record_resume_error): Deleted.
>        (record_resume): Call record_message.
>        (record_wait): Deleted record_resume_error.
>
> ---
>  record.c |   19 +------------------
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)
>
> --- a/record.c
> +++ b/record.c
> @@ -516,7 +516,6 @@ record_close (int quitting)
>  }
>
>  static int record_resume_step = 0;
> -static int record_resume_error;
>
>  static void
>  record_resume (struct target_ops *ops, ptid_t ptid, int step,
> @@ -526,15 +525,7 @@ record_resume (struct target_ops *ops, p
>
>   if (!RECORD_IS_REPLAY)
>     {
> -      if (do_record_message (get_current_regcache ()))
> -        {
> -          record_resume_error = 0;
> -        }
> -      else
> -        {
> -          record_resume_error = 1;
> -          return;
> -        }
> +      record_message (get_current_regcache ());
>       record_beneath_to_resume (record_beneath_to_resume_ops, ptid, 1,
>                                 siggnal);
>     }
> @@ -586,14 +577,6 @@ record_wait (struct target_ops *ops,
>
>   if (!RECORD_IS_REPLAY)
>     {
> -      if (record_resume_error)
> -       {
> -         /* If record_resume get error, return directly.  */
> -         status->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED;
> -         status->value.sig = TARGET_SIGNAL_ABRT;
> -         return inferior_ptid;
> -       }
> -
>       if (record_resume_step)
>        {
>          /* This is a single step.  */
>