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From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Doug Evans <dje@google.com>
Cc: gdb <gdb@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: Is gdb script execution intended to work this way in async mode?
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:46:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53316C7C.6070206@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53308FE0.7080200@redhat.com>

On 03/24/2014 08:04 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 03/22/2014 12:13 AM, Doug Evans wrote:
>> Hi.
>> If I source a script in target-async mode, non-asynchronous execution
>> commands "finish" immediately in the sense that the following command
>> in the script is done before the previous command has completed (in
>> the expected sense - the command completes immediately, so to speak,
>> but continuations are registered to perform the rest of the command,
>> e.g. to keep stepping until a "next" has fully completed).
>>
>> I hope this is a bug.
> 
> Yes.  set target-async on/off is supposed to be transparent.
> The only difference should be that "set target-async on" enables more
> features.  I thought this was fixed, but looks like not...
> Sounds like we forget to clear interpreter_async while running
> the script?

Yes, that's what's happening.  I'm testing a fix.

-- 
Pedro Alves


      reply	other threads:[~2014-03-25 11:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-22  0:13 Doug Evans
2014-03-24 20:04 ` Pedro Alves
2014-03-25 11:46   ` Pedro Alves [this message]

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