From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18012 invoked by alias); 17 Oct 2008 15:53:04 -0000 Received: (qmail 18002 invoked by uid 22791); 17 Oct 2008 15:53:02 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il (HELO mtaout2.012.net.il) (84.95.2.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:52:23 +0000 Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.24.3]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K8W00BEU45JY5A1@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Fri, 17 Oct 2008 17:53:44 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:53:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA] Displaced stepping just enable in non-stop mode In-reply-to: <200810171550.41055.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il To: Pedro Alves Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, drow@false.org, teawater@gmail.com, brobecker@adacore.com, msnyder@vmware.com Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <20081016123422.GA31057@caradoc.them.org> <200810171550.41055.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-10/txt/msg00434.txt.bz2 > From: Pedro Alves > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 15:50:40 +0100 > Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , teawater@gmail.com, brobecker@adacore.com, msnyder@vmware.com > > > We could also try to detect if it works, and display a warning if we > > think it won't (RE the cases you described above). > > That would be a warning that brings no value to the user in > all-stop mode. > > If the user sees: > > "warning: you can not use displaced stepping on this platform". > > He/she will think that something is wrong, while at least currently, > no functionality the user cares for is lost (in all-stop). The warning should say that non-stop won't work, and we should refuse to work in non-stop mode in this case.