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[PATCH 13/30] Don't call clear_quit_flag in prepare_to_throw_exception


I think this is reminiscent of the time when a longjmp would always
jump to the top level.  Nowaways code that throw exceptions other than
a quit, which may even be caught and handled without reaching the top
level.  Certainly such exceptions shouldn't clear an interrupt
request...

(We also need to get rid of prepare_to_throw_exception in order to be
able to just do "throw ex;" in C++.)

One could argue that we should clear the quit flag when we throw a
quit from the SIGINT handler, when immediate_quit is in effect, to
handle a race, here:

 immediate_quit++;
 QUIT;

... that's the usual pattern code must use when enabling
immediate_quit.  The QUIT is there to catch the case of Ctrl-C having
already been pressed before immediate_quit was enabled.  However, this
can happen:

 immediate_quit++;
<< Ctrl-C pressed here too.
 QUIT;

And in that case, if the quit flag was already set, it'll stay set
even after throwing a quit from the SIGINT handler.  The end result is
a double quit.  But OTOH, the user did press Ctrl-C two times.  Since
I'm getting rid of immediate_quit, I'm not bothering with this.

gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd  Pedro Alves  <palves@redhat.com>

	* exceptions.c (prepare_to_throw_exception): Don't clear the quit
	flag.
---
 gdb/exceptions.c | 1 -
 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/exceptions.c b/gdb/exceptions.c
index 8ba86fc..b457838 100644
--- a/gdb/exceptions.c
+++ b/gdb/exceptions.c
@@ -30,7 +30,6 @@
 void
 prepare_to_throw_exception (void)
 {
-  clear_quit_flag ();
   immediate_quit = 0;
 }
 
-- 
2.5.0


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