Re: [PATCH 03/12] Mark optimized out values as non-lazy.

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 08/12/2013 01:20 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> This is a re-posting of this patch:
>   http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2013-07/msg00058.html
> 
> The patch was never rejected, it just ran out of steam.  Pedro noticed
> that we could go beyond this patch and do more, even releasing the
> value contents when we spot values are fully optimized out.  I agree,
> but believe that is a separate idea, that can always be added later,
> for this case we've not even allocated any value contents yet.
> 
> OK to apply?

OK.  I've pushed it (with you as author), with the commit log
below.

Thanks.

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From: Andrew Burgess <aburgess@broadcom.com>

Mark entirely optimized out value as non-lazy.

If a value is entirely optimized out, then there's nothing for
value_fetch_lazy to fetch.  Sequences like:

 if (value_lazy (retval))
   value_fetch_lazy (retval);

End up allocating the value contents buffer, wasting memory, for no
use.

gdb/ChangeLog
2013-11-26  Andrew Burgess  <aburgess@broadcom.com>

	* value.c (allocate_optimized_out_value): Mark value as non-lazy.
---

 gdb/ChangeLog |    4 ++++
 gdb/value.c   |    2 +-
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog
index 7e28436..c144565 100644
--- a/gdb/ChangeLog
+++ b/gdb/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+2013-11-26  Andrew Burgess  <aburgess@broadcom.com>
+
+	* value.c (allocate_optimized_out_value): Mark value as non-lazy.
+
 2013-11-26  Tom Tromey  <tromey@redhat.com>
 
 	* dwarf2-frame.c (dwarf2_frame_cache): Revert patch from
diff --git a/gdb/value.c b/gdb/value.c
index da7778f..8052f52 100644
--- a/gdb/value.c
+++ b/gdb/value.c
@@ -768,7 +768,7 @@ allocate_optimized_out_value (struct type *type)
   struct value *retval = allocate_value_lazy (type);
 
   set_value_optimized_out (retval, 1);
-
+  set_value_lazy (retval, 0);
   return retval;
 }