Re: [Bug win32/14529] Make gdb capable of JIT-debugging on W32

[Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>]

On 09/11/2012 07:23 PM, LRN wrote:
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> On 11.09.2012 22:08, Pedro Alves wrote:
>> On 08/31/2012 04:37 PM, LRN wrote:
>>>>>>> @@ -1055,6 +1065,7 @@ Options:\n\n\ --dbx
>>>>>>> DBX compatibility mode.\n\ --directory=DIR    Search for
>>>>>>> source files in DIR.\n\ --epoch            Output
>>>>>>> information used by epoch emacs-GDB interface.\n\ +
>>>>>>> --event=EVENT      Signal the EVENT when attached to a
>>>>>>> process. W32 only.\n\
>>>>>
>>>>> And also this part.
>>> They were, initially. However, gdb contribution documentation
>>> said that gdb devs frown upon extra #ifdefs in files that are
>>> not platform-specific. The code is mostly platform independent,
>>> it's the two W32API functions that only work on W32 (and you can
>>> write non-W32 equivalent, if you figure out how to make it work).
>>> Thus, i removed extra #ifdefs in main.c and other files.
>>
>> Please consider also cross builds.  IOW, a gdb hosted on Windows, 
>> but that is built to target something else.  In that case, as is, 
>> you will end up with the option compiled in.  But if you remove
>> any mention that this is for Windows only, it'll be confusing.
> OK, that means moving configure.ac patches from $host_os case
> to...where? Should i just make a new
>     case "${target}" in
> 	*cygwin*|*mingw*) default_w32_jitdbg=1
> 	;;
>     esac
> somewhere? Is it ${target}, or ${target_os}? What if there are
> multiple targets (i've seen something like that in configure.ac)?

Right, that's the issue -- you can't just check the target, because
there might be more than one.  So the option should be clear
at what it does, and where it applies.

> 
>> I'd maybe go as far as renaming the option to --w32-jit-event or 
>> --aedebug-event, or some such.
>>
> I don't really care how it's named. Agree on something, and i'll
> change the patch.

I don't care either, as long as it isn't confusing on the cross
scenario.  :-)

> That said, w32-jit-event sounds closer to truth, since it's not
> exclusive to AeDebug (as i have said, you can use it manually, if you
> have your own exception handler that runs gdb).

Alright.

> 
>> Alternatively, and perhaps it really is a better option, get rid of
>> the --event option, but make this a real command, implemented in
>> windows-nat.c, so that the user has better control of when to
>> signal the event, like:
>>
>> gdb -ex "foo" -ex "bar" -ex "attach PID" -ex "signal-aedebug-event
>> FOO"
>>
> That's an interesting option. Will require better documentation though
> (i haven't realized that i can do that until now; shows how well i
> know gdb :). And i'll need to test it to make sure that W32 is
> actually capable of, say, replacing a quoted %ld...
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Pedro Alves