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Re: [RFA] Try 2: Use multiple locations for hardware watchpoints.
- From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>
- To: gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:42:12 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFA] Try 2: Use multiple locations for hardware watchpoints.
- References: <200711282014.28537.vladimir@codesourcery.com>
On Wednesday 28 November 2007 20:14:28 you wrote:
>
> This is a revised patch to make watchpoint use regular locations
> mechanism for storing locations to be watched. Compared to the
> previous patch:
>
> - The 'update_watchpoint' function now updates the value stored
> inside breakpoint, removing the need for a special code for that
> purpose inside 'insert_breakpoints', which code had a FIXME saying
> it should be moved elsewhere. Since we call evaluate_expression
> anyway, update_watchpoint only needs a little care with memory management
> to do that -- there's no extra overhead.
>
> - The 'update_watchpoint' function also has 'reparse' parameter, which
> causes it to reparse the watched expression. The breakpoint_re_set_one,
> for the case of watchpoints, now merely calls update_watchpoint.
>
> - Presently, if I set a watchpoint on a global variable in an
> explicitly loaded shared library, and re-run the program, gdb promptly
> segfaults. This patch fixes that, and adds a testcase for that behaviour.
>
> This patch should be applied on top of my previous breakpoint_re_set_on
> watchpoint cleanup patch.
I've noticed that update_watchpoint fail to exit early in case the
breakpoint's disposition is disp_del_at_next_stop. That disposition is
used for breakpoints that we need to delete when they are out of scope --
that's kind of hack, as trying to call delete_breakpoint directly will
lead to crashes as later code touches this breakpoint.
Without this check, nothing breaks, but we sometimes get a message about
a deleted watchpoint twice. To fix it, the below one-liner should
be applied on top of this patch.
- Volodya
diff --git a/gdb/breakpoint.c b/gdb/breakpoint.c
index 4f6f161..7a07678 100644
--- a/gdb/breakpoint.c
+++ b/gdb/breakpoint.c
@@ -855,6 +855,9 @@ update_watchpoint (struct breakpoint *b, int reparse)
value_free (b->val);
b->val = NULL;
+
+ if (b->disposition == disp_del_at_next_stop)
+ return;
/* Save the current frame's ID so we can restore it after
evaluating the watchpoint expression on its own frame. */