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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [patch] Fix crash on NULL rl_prompt
Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2010 17:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m38w99wwc7.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201003301825.18754.pedro@codesourcery.com> (Pedro Alves's 	message of "Tue, 30 Mar 2010 18:25:18 +0100")

>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com> writes:

Pedro> But isn't `rl_prompt' always built from input feed to readline?

Yes.

Pedro> GDB always gives readline a non-NULL prompt, from what I've seen.
Pedro> Hence, I wouldn't be so fast in calling it correct, but I'm
Pedro> not going to spend more time on this.

I see it as defensive programming.

We can always un-approve it, if you would rather wait to see if a
reproducer is available.

Tom


  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-03-30 17:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-29 23:40 Jan Kratochvil
2010-03-30 15:57 ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-30 16:12   ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-30 16:23     ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-30 16:41       ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-30 17:05         ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-03-30 17:13           ` Tom Tromey
2010-03-30 17:25           ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-30 17:29             ` Jan Kratochvil
2010-03-30 17:55               ` Pedro Alves
2010-03-31 21:27                 ` [cancel] " Jan Kratochvil
2010-03-30 17:31             ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-03-30 20:50             ` Pedro Alves

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