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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
Cc: "gdb\@sourceware.org" <gdb@sourceware.org>,
	       "pedro\@codesourcery.com" <pedro@codesourcery.com>
Subject: Re: segfault: what should happen when I remove an inferior that is running?
Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:08:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3oc8otms0.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F7CE05678329534C957159168FA70DEC572E0C0E1A@EUSAACMS0703.eamcs.ericsson.se>	(Marc Khouzam's message of "Fri, 10 Dec 2010 16:22:47 -0500")

>>>>> "Marc" == Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com> writes:

Marc> I gather removing a running inferior is not a good idea, but
Marc> I think we should protect GDB against that user mistake
Marc> somehow.

I agree.

Thanks for the simple example.  I was able to reproduce it here.

Marc> Any suggestions on how to handle this case?

The docs say:

     Removes the inferior INFNO.  It is not possible to remove an
     inferior that is running with this command.

I think this means we are missing an error check somewhere.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2010-12-14 15:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-12-10 21:24 Marc Khouzam
2010-12-14 15:08 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2010-12-14 15:24   ` Pedro Alves

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