[RFC] Support exec tracing on GNU/Linux and HP-UX
Daniel Jacobowitz
drow@false.org
Tue Jan 29 17:09:00 GMT 2008
On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 07:30:39PM +0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> You may not remember as this was a couple of months ago (already!),
> but we had determined at the time that we could not easily disable
> exec events during inferior startup on HP/UX. So we decided to find
> a way to treat these exec events as SIGTRAPs.
>
> Here is a possible solution that does not involve the use of a global.
> It involves the addition of a new parameter to wait_for_inferior. Most
> of the time, we will set it so that events are not handled as is. But
> during the inferior startup sequence, we tell it to translate EXEC
> events into SIGTRAPs. I should probably add a comment at the beginning
> of wait_for_inferior explaining the intent of that new parameter -
> I will do that if you like the idea.
>
> 2007-12-21 Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
>
> * infrun.c (wait_for_inferior): Add treat_exec_as_sigtrap parameter
> and use it.
> (proceed, start_remote): Update call to wait_for_inferior.
> * inferior.h (wait_for_inferior): Update declaration.
> * fork-child.c, infcmd.c, solib-irix.c, solib-osf.c, solib-sunos.c,
> solib-svr4.c, win32-nat.c: Update calls to wait_for_inferior.
> * inf-ttrace.c (inf_ttrace_wait): Report TTEVT_EXEC events as
> TARGET_WAITKIND_EXECD instead of TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED.
>
> Tested on hppa-hpux, no regression.
Hi Joel,
This looks good to me - would you add that comment and check it in?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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