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Re: PR threads/2015: Fix adjust_pc_after_break for thread debugging


On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 06:19:52PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 12:10:18AM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> > adjust_pc_after_break is doing the wrong thing during thread debugging
> > when the current thread is different from the thread when the debuggee was
> > stopped last.  The problem is that it calls currently_stepping, which
> > accesses global variables that are part of the thread context.  But the
> > context switch will only happen much later on.  The proposed fix will skip
> > the call when the current infrun context does not match the thread to be
> > examined.  This has been tested on x86_64-suse-linux and fixes 32
> > testcases without any regressions.
> 
> Which test failures are these?  i.e. why doesn't anyone else see this
> when they run the testsuite?
> 
> Offhand I'd be suspicious that this helped - some other thread probably
> needs its PC adjusted and now may not be.

As a followup to my questions: it looks like the only globals which are
used are also in ecs, so currently_stepping could easily be fixed to
read only from ecs.  But it's not clear whether we'd want to do this
test on ecs, inferior_ptid, or both.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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