[PING] RE: [RFC][PATCH] - Fix pretty-printers which call the inferiors, mi-interface crashs

[Vörtler, Thilo <thilo dot voertler at coseda-tech dot com>]

Ping !

> Hi,
> as described in Bug 17437 the mi interface corrupts cached frames in 
> the list_arg_or_local function of mi-cmd-stack.c when a pretty-printer 
> calls a function of the inferior. To prevent this the frame_id is 
> stored and used to restore the frame after calling list_arg_or_local
> - MI regressions were run and no effect through the patch was seen
> 
> Is this patch okay?
> 
> BR, Thilo
> 
> 
> gdb/ChangeLog:
> 
> 2016-06-02  Thilo Vörtler  <thilo.voertler@coseda-tech.com>
> 
> 	* mi-cmd-stack.c (list_args_or_locals) the mi interface corrupts
> 	cached frames in the list_arg_or_local function of mi-cmd-stack.c 
> when
> 	a pretty-printer calls a function of the inferior. To prevent this the
> 	frame_id is stored and used to restore the frame after calling
> 	list_arg_or_local
>
>From 1bd73a4b39fcbe31362c57a6d2e0392018a62435 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
>From: =?UTF-8?q?Thilo=20V=C3=B6rtler?= <thilo.voertler@coseda-tech.com>
>Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 15:16:57 +0200
>Subject: [PATCH] FIX pretty-printers which call the inferiors though the mi-interface
>
>- as described in Bug 17437 the mi interface corrupts cached frames in
>the list_arg_or_local function of mi-cmd-stack.c when a pretty-printer
>calls a function of the inferior. To prevent this the frame_id is stored
>and used to restore the frame after calling list_arg_or_local
>- MI regressions were run and no effect through the patch was seen
>---
> gdb/mi/mi-cmd-stack.c |    4 ++++
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
>diff --git a/gdb/mi/mi-cmd-stack.c b/gdb/mi/mi-cmd-stack.c
>index 390fc7e..5622834 100644
>--- a/gdb/mi/mi-cmd-stack.c
>+++ b/gdb/mi/mi-cmd-stack.c
>@@ -581,8 +581,10 @@ list_args_or_locals (enum what_to_list what, enum print_values values,
>   struct type *type;
>   char *name_of_result;
>   struct ui_out *uiout = current_uiout;
>+  struct frame_id id;
> 
>   block = get_frame_block (fi, 0);
>+  id = get_frame_id (fi);
> 
>   switch (what)
>     {
>@@ -680,6 +682,8 @@ list_args_or_locals (enum what_to_list what, enum print_values values,
> 		list_arg_or_local (&entryarg, what, values, skip_unavailable);
> 	      xfree (arg.error);
> 	      xfree (entryarg.error);
>+
>+	      fi = frame_find_by_id(id);
> 	    }
> 	}
> 
>-- 
>1.7.1

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