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Re: [PATCH] Remove only use of current_inferior ()->gdbarch outside of gdbarch.*


"Ulrich Weigand" <uweigand@de.ibm.com> writes:
> Doug Evans wrote:
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:21 AM, Ulrich Weigand <uweigand@de.ibm.com> wrote:
>> > Doug Evans wrote:
>> >> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 10:15 PM, Doug Evans <xdje42@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > 2015-08-27  Doug Evans  <xdje42@gmail.com>
>> >> >
>> >> >         * ravenscar-thread.c (ravenscar_inferior_created): Replace
>> >> >         current_inferior ()->gdbarch with its wrapper target_gdbarch.
>> >
>> > Just as a quick comment: this goes exactly into the opposite direction
>> > from what we discussed in the other thread.  I think we should replace
>> > target_gdbarch () with current_inferior ()->gdbarch *everywhere*,
>> > instead of reverting that here ...
>> 
>> This does nothing to fix the underlying problem, which is the
>> referencing of global state instead obtaining the needed state
>> (inferior, gdbarch, or whatever) from the passed in context.
>> That's what I was talking about in the other thread at any rate.
>> *In the mean time*, let's be consistent, and this patch is simpler.
>> 
>> When we do go to properly fix this (or at least take the next step
>> to properly fixing this), *then* we can go through and remove all
>> the target_gdbarch calls.
>
> Well, OK.  I guess I can see why we'd want to use target_gdbarch
> consistently until it's eliminated completely ...  I don't really
> object to this patch, in any case.

Committed, thanks.


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