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Patch to propagate GDB's knowledge of the executing state to frontend


Hi,

Attached patch is to let GDB propagate the target state under following two scenarios:

1. Attached patch will enable GDB to inform about the state of the target when it was not able to fetch the non-general registers, when target is already stopped.

The reason behind this behavior was an error message which was caused when the GDB was not able to fetch the value of a certain register. The GDB should have told the front end about the current state of the target. The attached patch makes sure that it happens. This patch should be a safety measure in case some debugging stub behaves badly.

2. Attached patch will enable GDB to inform about the state of the target when it was not able to fetch the backtrace once the step has already occurred and target is in stopped state.

I have tested the patch for powerpc-eabi as well as i686-pc-linux. No regression was introduced by the patch and results were identical with and without the patch.

The patch has also been tested with both sync and async mode, no regression.

OK?

Thanks,
-Ali

Index: ChangeLog
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.14760
diff -u -r1.14760 ChangeLog
--- ChangeLog	24 Oct 2012 19:08:15 -0000	1.14760
+++ ChangeLog	25 Oct 2012 10:52:02 -0000
@@ -1,3 +1,13 @@
+2012-10-25  Ali Anwar  <ali_anwar@codesourcery.com>
+
+	* infrun.c (handle_inferior_event_stub, regcache_dup_stub):
+	New functions.
+	(normal_stop): Change to propagate GDB's knowledge of the
+	executing state to frontend when not able to fetch registers.
+	(wait_for_inferior): Chnage to propagate GDB's knowledge of
+	the executing state if not able to fetch backtrace once the
+	step has already occured.
+
 2012-10-24  Tristan Gingold  <gingold@adacore.com>
 
 	* ravenscar-sparc-thread.c (ravenscar_sparc_fetch_registers):
Index: infrun.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/infrun.c,v
retrieving revision 1.559
diff -u -r1.559 infrun.c
--- infrun.c	17 Sep 2012 07:26:55 -0000	1.559
+++ infrun.c	25 Oct 2012 10:52:04 -0000
@@ -73,6 +73,10 @@
 
 static int hook_stop_stub (void *);
 
+static int regcache_dup_stub (void *);
+
+static int handle_inferior_event_stub (void *);
+
 static int restore_selected_frame (void *);
 
 static int follow_fork (void);
@@ -2701,7 +2705,8 @@
       old_chain = make_cleanup (finish_thread_state_cleanup, &minus_one_ptid);
 
       /* Now figure out what to do with the result of the result.  */
-      handle_inferior_event (ecs);
+      catch_errors (handle_inferior_event_stub, ecs,
+                    "Error while handling inferior event:\n", RETURN_MASK_ALL);
 
       /* No error, don't finish the state yet.  */
       discard_cleanups (old_chain);
@@ -6082,7 +6087,8 @@
 
       /* NB: The copy goes through to the target picking up the value of
 	 all the registers.  */
-      stop_registers = regcache_dup (get_current_regcache ());
+      catch_errors (regcache_dup_stub, NULL,
+                    "Error while running regcache_dup:\n", RETURN_MASK_ALL);
     }
 
   if (stop_stack_dummy == STOP_STACK_DUMMY)
@@ -6154,6 +6160,20 @@
 }
 
 static int
+handle_inferior_event_stub (void *ecs)
+{
+  handle_inferior_event (ecs);
+  return (0);
+}
+
+static int
+regcache_dup_stub (void *arg)
+{
+  stop_registers = regcache_dup (get_current_regcache ());
+  return (0);
+}
+
+static int
 hook_stop_stub (void *cmd)
 {
   execute_cmd_pre_hook ((struct cmd_list_element *) cmd);

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