Re: Python and target-async

[Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>]

On Tuesday 31 May 2011 18:54:10, Kevin Pouget wrote:
> > you have "set target-async on" twice. Was that a pasto?
> 
> sorry, yes the first one was wrong
> 
> here is the correct behaviour:
> 
> > (gdb) set target-async off
> > (gdb) py gdb.execute("attach PID") ; gdb.execute("where")
> > 0x0000003cbd0aa47e in waitpid () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> > #0  0x0000003cbd0aa47e in waitpid () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> > #1  0x000000000043ede2 in ?? ()
> > #2  0x000000000044005f in wait_for ()
> > #3  0x0000000000430c45 in execute_command_internal ()
> > #4  0x0000000000430e0e in execute_command ()
> > #5  0x000000000041d526 in reader_loop ()
> > #6  0x000000000041ccde in main ()
> 
> and this one is wrong because the backtrace is not correctly computed:
> 
> > (gdb) set target-async on
> > (gdb) py gdb.execute("attach PID") ; gdb.execute("where")
> > #0  0x0000003cbd0aa47e in ?? ()
> > #1  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
> > 0x0000003cbd0aa47e in waitpid () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> 
> I expected to read:
> 
> > (gdb) set target-async on
> > (gdb) py gdb.execute("attach PID") ; gdb.execute("where")
> > 0x0000003cbd0aa47e in waitpid () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> > #0  0x0000003cbd0aa47e in waitpid () from /lib64/libc.so.6
> > #1  0x000000000043ede2 in ?? ()
> > #2  0x000000000044005f in wait_for ()
> > #3  0x0000000000430c45 in execute_command_internal ()
> > #4  0x0000000000430e0e in execute_command ()
> > #5  0x000000000041d526 in reader_loop ()
> > #6  0x000000000041ccde in main ()
> 
> is it clearer this way ?

Very much.  Thanks.  This sounds similar to the
define.exp:nextwhere testcase failing in async mode.
That is, the attach command installing a continuation
and returning before the attach is complete, and 
the "where" command executing before the inferior reports
a stop to the attach command continuation.
I've got a fix for the "nextwhere" issue, that I'll
need some cleaning up before pushing, though
I'll bet that the python code will need fixing
of its own.  :-/

-- 
Pedro Alves