[RFA] let record_resume fail immediately on error
Michael Snyder
msnyder@vmware.com
Sat Sep 26 18:35:00 GMT 2009
Personally, I think this one isn't critical for 7.0.
Waiting for 7.1 will allow us more time to assess it.
Hui Zhu wrote:
> Hi Joel,
>
> Sorry to disturb you. Ping
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2009-09/msg00231.html
>
> Thanks,
> Hui
>
> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 10:05, Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 00:55, Michael Snyder<msnyder@vmware.com> wrote:
>>> Hui Zhu wrote:
>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 15:25, Hui Zhu<teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> If GDB call error in record_resume, user cannot keep debug the inferior.
>>>>>
>>>>> Hui
>>>>>
>>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 15:23, Hui Zhu<teawater@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>> The "record_resume_error" in gdb-cvs is to make user after get a error
>>>>>> of record_message, they can "record stop" close the record and keep
>>>>>> debug the inferior.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>>> Hui
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 14:58, Joel Brobecker<brobecker@adacore.com>
>>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>>>> if (!RECORD_IS_REPLAY)
>>>>>>>> {
>>>>>>>> if (do_record_message (get_current_regcache ()))
>>>>>>>> - {
>>>>>>>> - record_resume_error = 0;
>>>>>>>> - }
>>>>>>>> - else
>>>>>>>> - {
>>>>>>>> - record_resume_error = 1;
>>>>>>>> - return;
>>>>>>>> - }
>>>>>>>> + internal_error (__FILE__, __LINE__,
>>>>>>>> + _("record_resume: do_record_message failed."));
>>>>>>>> +
>>>>>>> Forgive me if I'm wrong, as I don't know the record.c code at all, but
>>>>>>> I cannot help but think that the internal_error is suspicious here.
>>>>>>> Why is this an internal_error?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> Joel
>>>>>>>
>>>> Hi guys,
>>>>
>>>> I make a patch that make "record_resume_error" work better. I did
>>>> some test. It seems better than before.
>>> Could you explain what you mean by better?
>>> I mean, what behavior are you looking for here?
>>>
>>> Here is the behavior that I see --- I am making a recording,
>>> I say "continue", and after a while this "record_resume_error"
>>> is triggered, and gdb stops and says "No more reverse-execution history."
>>>
>>> I would never expect to see that message during recording.
>> In before, GDB cannot throw error in record_resume (It just in my
>> memory, maybe I am wrong).
>> If we try to do it, it will get:
>> (gdb) c
>> Continuing.
>> Cannot execute this command while the selected thread is running.
>> So I add record_resume_error to let record_wait to handle it.
>>
>> But record_wait cannot call error too. So I let it:
>> /* If record_resume get error, return directly. */
>> status->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED;
>> status->value.sig = TARGET_SIGNAL_0;
>> return inferior_ptid;
>>
>> But I found that record_resume can call error now. So I make a new
>> patch for it.
>>
>> Could you help me try it?
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Hui
>>
>> 2009-09-09 Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>
>>
>> * record.c (record_resume_error): Deleted.
>> (record_resume): Call record_message.
>> (record_wait): Deleted record_resume_error.
>>
>> ---
>> record.c | 19 +------------------
>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> --- a/record.c
>> +++ b/record.c
>> @@ -516,7 +516,6 @@ record_close (int quitting)
>> }
>>
>> static int record_resume_step = 0;
>> -static int record_resume_error;
>>
>> static void
>> record_resume (struct target_ops *ops, ptid_t ptid, int step,
>> @@ -526,15 +525,7 @@ record_resume (struct target_ops *ops, p
>>
>> if (!RECORD_IS_REPLAY)
>> {
>> - if (do_record_message (get_current_regcache ()))
>> - {
>> - record_resume_error = 0;
>> - }
>> - else
>> - {
>> - record_resume_error = 1;
>> - return;
>> - }
>> + record_message (get_current_regcache ());
>> record_beneath_to_resume (record_beneath_to_resume_ops, ptid, 1,
>> siggnal);
>> }
>> @@ -586,14 +577,6 @@ record_wait (struct target_ops *ops,
>>
>> if (!RECORD_IS_REPLAY)
>> {
>> - if (record_resume_error)
>> - {
>> - /* If record_resume get error, return directly. */
>> - status->kind = TARGET_WAITKIND_STOPPED;
>> - status->value.sig = TARGET_SIGNAL_ABRT;
>> - return inferior_ptid;
>> - }
>> -
>> if (record_resume_step)
>> {
>> /* This is a single step. */
>>
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