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Re: [PATCH 3/3] Fix "Remote 'g' packet reply is too long" problems with multiple inferiors


Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:

> @@ -7015,9 +7018,43 @@ Packet: '%s'\n"),
>  		 reason.  */
>  	      if (p_temp == p1)
>  		{
> -		  struct packet_reg *reg = packet_reg_from_pnum (rsa, pnum);
> +		  /* If we haven't parsed the event's thread yet, find
> +		     it now, in order to find the architecture of the
> +		     reported expedited registers.  */
> +		  if (event->ptid == null_ptid)
> +		    {
> +		      const char *thr = strstr (p1 + 1, ";thread:");
> +		      if (thr != NULL)
> +			event->ptid = read_ptid (thr + strlen (";thread:"),
> +						 NULL);
> +		      else
> +			event->ptid = magic_null_ptid;
> +		    }
> +
> +		  if (rsa == NULL)
> +		    {
> +		      inferior *inf = (event->ptid == null_ptid
> +				       ? NULL
> +				       : find_inferior_ptid (event->ptid));
> +		      /* If this is the first time we learn anything
> +			 about this process, skip the registers
> +			 included in this packet, since we don't yet
> +			 know which architecture to use to parse
> +			 them.  */

Could you add a comment about when/how does GDB fetch the target
description of the first-time-seen process?

> +		      if (inf == NULL)
> +			{
> +			  p = strchrnul (p1 + 1, ';');
> +			  p++;
> +			  continue;
> +			}

Otherwise, patch is good to me.

-- 
Yao (齐尧)


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