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Re: [RFA] bpstat_do_actions in one place
- From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>
- To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 13:04:05 +0400
- Subject: Re: [RFA] bpstat_do_actions in one place
- References: <200804242002.03590.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <20080502025753.GA28580@caradoc.them.org>
On Friday 02 May 2008 06:57:53 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 07:02:03PM +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> >
> > This patch, to be applied on top of the "Use observers to report stop events."
> > make async code call bpstat_do_action in the event handler, to make sure that
> > it's always called.
> >
> > OK?
>
> OK.
>
> > + /* If there's an error doing breakpoint commands, we don't
> > + want to throw -- continuation might still do something. */
> > + TRY_CATCH (e, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
> > + {
> > + bpstat_do_actions (&stop_bpstat);
> > + }
>
> Will things go bad if RETURN_QUIT? I discovered that we don't handle
> quit very well from some places.
>
> Easy to trigger; put a command that generates lots of paginated output
> in the commands list and press q at the page prompt.
In fact, things will go bad. I've checked in the following version of the
patch that uses RETURN_MASK_ALL.
- Volodya
Index: gdb/ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.9373
diff -u -p -r1.9373 ChangeLog
--- gdb/ChangeLog 4 May 2008 22:49:47 -0000 1.9373
+++ gdb/ChangeLog 5 May 2008 09:01:57 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,10 @@
+2008-05-05 Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
+
+ * inf-loop.c (inferior_event_handler): Call bpstat_do_action,
+ and catch all exceptions from it.
+ * top.c (command_line_handler_continuation): Don't
+ call bpstat_do_action here.
+
2008-05-04 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* dwarf2read.c (struct dwarf2_cu): Add type_hash.
Index: gdb/inf-loop.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/inf-loop.c,v
retrieving revision 1.13
diff -u -p -r1.13 inf-loop.c
--- gdb/inf-loop.c 24 Apr 2008 11:13:44 -0000 1.13
+++ gdb/inf-loop.c 5 May 2008 09:01:57 -0000
@@ -43,6 +43,7 @@ void
inferior_event_handler (enum inferior_event_type event_type,
gdb_client_data client_data)
{
+ struct gdb_exception e;
int was_sync = 0;
switch (event_type)
{
@@ -91,6 +92,12 @@ inferior_event_handler (enum inferior_ev
was_sync = sync_execution;
async_enable_stdin ();
+ /* If there's an error doing breakpoint commands, we don't
+ want to throw -- continuation might still do something. */
+ TRY_CATCH (e, RETURN_MASK_ALL)
+ {
+ bpstat_do_actions (&stop_bpstat);
+ }
/* If we were doing a multi-step (eg: step n, next n), but it
got interrupted by a breakpoint, still do the pending
continuations. The continuation itself is responsible for
Index: gdb/top.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/top.c,v
retrieving revision 1.139
diff -u -p -r1.139 top.c
--- gdb/top.c 24 Apr 2008 11:13:44 -0000 1.139
+++ gdb/top.c 5 May 2008 09:01:57 -0000
@@ -379,8 +379,6 @@ command_line_handler_continuation (struc
if (error)
return;
- bpstat_do_actions (&stop_bpstat);
-
if (display_time)
{
long cmd_time = get_run_time () - time_at_cmd_start;