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Re: [RFA] dummy frame handling cleanup, plus inferior fun call signal handling improvement


ref: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-11/msg00454.html

On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 4:58 AM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> [...]
> There are two things this patch does:
> 1) properly pop dummy frames more often
> 2) make the inferior resumable after an inferior function call gets a
>   signal without having to remember to do "signal 0"
> [...]
> Restoring stop_signal also has the benefit that if an inferior function
> call is made after getting a signal, and the inferior function call
> doesn't complete (e.g. has a breakpoint and doesn't complete right away),
> the user can resume the program (after popping the inf fun call off the
> stack) with "continue" without having to remember what the signal was
> and remember to use "signal N".
> [...]

Hi.  This patch is an update to the testcases for this patch,
call-signal-resume.exp now tests for the above case.

Comments?

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