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

["Anwar, Ali" <Ali_Anwar at mentor dot com>]

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Regards,
-Ali
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From: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org [gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org] on behalf of Anwar, Ali
Sent: Friday, November 02, 2012 11:46 PM
To: dje@google.com
Cc: Qi, Yao; gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Patch to propagate GDB's knowledge of the executing state to frontend

On 11/02/2012 09:15 PM, dje@google.com wrote:
> Yao Qi writes:
>   >  On 10/25/2012 07:09 PM, ali_anwar wrote:
>   >  >  [...]
>   >  >  @@ -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
>   >                                ^^^^^^ typo
>   >
>   >
>   >  >  +     the executing state if not able to fetch backtrace once the
>   >  >  +     step has already occured.
>   >                            ^^^^^^^ typo.
>   >
>   >  In each changelog entry, we'll put 'what do we change' instead of 'why
>   >  do we change in this way'.  So this entry can be simplified.
>
> Hi.
>
> I agree with your first sentence, and would add that if such an
> explanation is needed, it belongs in the code not the changelog.
> [We don't have enough comments in the code explaining *why* things
> are the way they are.]
>
> But I'd say that's not the case here, at least for the changelog entries.
> Instead, I would remove the leading "Change to", and just say "Propagate ...".
>
> Also, I would add a comment to the code explaining *why* the calls are wrapped
> in catch_error (and I would have the comment live at the call to catch_error,
> not in the definition of the two new stubs).
>
> One could also say the two new functions also require comments,
> but they're pretty simple and hook_stop_stub doesn't have a comment,
> so I'd be ok with leaving them out.

Thanks for the review. Please find attached the modified patch.

-Ali