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Re: [Patch, moxie] Print 'bad' instructions in disassembly instead of aborting

From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>, Anthony Green <green at moxielogic dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2012 17:00:55 +0100
Subject: Re: [Patch, moxie] Print 'bad' instructions in disassembly instead of aborting
References: <CACxje5_LP_+xoshUXDx-OtD9HDtwbuT+14MaRH6znaiUQUaF5w@mail.gmail.com> <5065C493.2090806@redhat.com> <20120928155027.GD4063@adacore.com>

On 09/28/2012 04:50 PM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> If other ports are doing this, it's an accident waiting to happen.
> 
> ISTR bfd doing it too, because we tripped over something like that.
> BFD noticed a bad RELA entry and thought it was a sign of an internal
> error. So it aborted and GDB never had a chance to handle the situation
> more gracefully.

Yeah.  The point to take home is that bad input should never
cause an abort.

-- 
Pedro Alves

References:
- [Patch, moxie] Print 'bad' instructions in disassembly instead of aborting
  - From: Anthony Green
- Re: [Patch, moxie] Print 'bad' instructions in disassembly instead of aborting
  - From: Pedro Alves
- Re: [Patch, moxie] Print 'bad' instructions in disassembly instead of aborting
  - From: Joel Brobecker

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