Re: [RFC] Using bt command in async mode

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > > Incidentally, the patch I've presented for bt isn't suitable for inclusion
 > > as it uses:
 > > 
 > > +
 > > +   if (restart)
 > > +     continue_command ("&", 0);
 > > 
 > > If the user interrupts with 'bt' during a step, he presumably wants the
 > > step to finish.  I'm not sure how easy it is for Gdb to jump the inferior
 > > back into it's old state of execution.
 > 
 > It's not very hard. You only need to hack continue_command not to call
 > (indirectly) the clear_proceed_status function, which currently wipes away
 > all state.

It looks a bit harder than that.  Perhaps the arguments proceed () was called
with need to be saved, as well as executing the appropriate contination
after proceed () returns.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob