From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 07/24] Delete unnecessary code from kill_command
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2019 22:57:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191017225026.30496-8-palves@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191017225026.30496-1-palves@redhat.com>
I believe this comment:
/* Killing off the inferior can leave us with a core file. If
so, print the state we are left in. */
Referred to the fact that a decade ago, by design, GDB would let you
type "run" when debugging a core dump, keeping the core open. That
"run" would push a process_stratum target on the target stack for the
live process, and, the core would remain open -- we used to have a
core_stratum. When the live process was killed/detached or exited,
GDB would go back to debugging the core, since the core_stratum target
was now at the top of the stack. That design had a number of
problems, see here for example:
https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-08/msg00290.html
In 2010, core_stratum was finaly eliminated and cores now have
process_stratum too, with commit c0edd9edadfe ("Make core files the
process_stratum."). Pushing a live process on the stack while you're
debugging a core discards the core completely.
I also thought that this might be in use with checkpoints, but it does
not -- "kill" when you have multiple checkpoints kills all the
checkpoints.
gdb/ChangeLog:
yyyy-mm-dd Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* infcmd.c (kill_command): Remove dead code.
---
gdb/infcmd.c | 14 --------------
1 file changed, 14 deletions(-)
diff --git a/gdb/infcmd.c b/gdb/infcmd.c
index 71057748fd..ae1044b95a 100644
--- a/gdb/infcmd.c
+++ b/gdb/infcmd.c
@@ -2501,20 +2501,6 @@ kill_command (const char *arg, int from_tty)
printf_unfiltered (_("[Inferior %d (%s) killed]\n"),
infnum, pid_str.c_str ());
- /* If we still have other inferiors to debug, then don't mess with
- with their threads. */
- if (!have_inferiors ())
- {
- init_thread_list (); /* Destroy thread info. */
-
- /* Killing off the inferior can leave us with a core file. If
- so, print the state we are left in. */
- if (target_has_stack)
- {
- printf_filtered (_("In %s,\n"), target_longname);
- print_stack_frame (get_selected_frame (NULL), 1, SRC_AND_LOC, 1);
- }
- }
bfd_cache_close_all ();
}
--
2.14.5
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Thread overview: 73+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-17 22:50 [PATCH v2 00/24] Multi-target support Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 16/24] Fix reconnecting to a gdbserver already debugging multiple processes, I Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 17/24] Fix reconnecting to a gdbserver already debugging multiple processes, II Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 02/24] Don't rely on inferior_ptid in record_full_wait Pedro Alves
2019-11-01 14:54 ` Tom Tromey
2019-12-20 17:49 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-20 18:57 ` Tom Tromey
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 12/24] Use all_non_exited_inferiors in infrun.c Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 10/24] Some get_last_target_status tweaks Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 03/24] Make "show remote exec-file" inferior-aware Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 11/24] tfile_target::close: trace_fd can't be -1 Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 01/24] Preserve selected thread in all-stop w/ background execution Pedro Alves
2019-11-01 13:20 ` Tom Tromey
2019-12-20 17:22 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-20 18:54 ` Tom Tromey
2019-12-20 18:57 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-20 18:57 ` Tom Tromey
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 09/24] switch inferior/thread before calling target methods Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 21/24] Revert 'Remove unused struct serial::name field' Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 15/24] Avoid another inferior_ptid reference in gdb/remote.c Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:50 ` [PATCH v2 06/24] Don't check target is running in remote_target::mourn_inferior Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] Multi-target support Pedro Alves
2020-01-11 3:12 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-12 1:58 ` [pushed] Remove last traces of discard_all_inferiors (Re: [PATCH v2 18/24] Multi-target support) Pedro Alves
2020-01-12 20:17 ` [PATCH v2 18/24] Multi-target support Simon Marchi
2020-01-13 15:19 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-13 16:37 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-12 22:30 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-13 15:59 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-17 4:03 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-17 16:19 ` Simon Marchi
2020-01-17 15:18 ` Simon Marchi
2020-05-16 8:16 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-05-16 11:33 ` Fix IA-64 GNU/Linux build (Re: [PATCH v2 18/24] Multi-target support) Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 04/24] exceptions.c:print_flush: Remove obsolete check Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 22/24] Add "info connections" command, "info inferiors" connection number/string Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:51 ` [PATCH v2 19/24] Add multi-target tests Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:57 ` Pedro Alves [this message]
2019-10-17 22:57 ` [PATCH v2 05/24] Make target_ops::has_execution take an 'inferior *' instead of a ptid_t Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:57 ` [PATCH v2 23/24] Require always-non-stop for multi-target resumptions Pedro Alves
2019-11-01 14:51 ` Tom Tromey
2019-12-30 18:30 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-31 20:06 ` Tom Tromey
2019-10-17 22:59 ` [PATCH v2 20/24] gdbarch-selftests.c: No longer error out if debugging something Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:59 ` [PATCH v2 08/24] Introduce switch_to_inferior_no_thread Pedro Alves
2019-11-07 9:14 ` Paunovic, Aleksandar
2019-12-20 18:50 ` Pedro Alves
2019-12-23 19:30 ` [PATCH] Switch the inferior too in switch_to_program_space_and_thread (Re: [PATCH v2 08/24] Introduce switch_to_inferior_no_thread) Pedro Alves
2020-01-08 15:48 ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2020-01-10 2:03 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-10 11:33 ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2020-01-10 12:18 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-10 13:51 ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2020-01-10 14:41 ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-10 20:03 ` Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:59 ` [PATCH v2 24/24] Multi-target: NEWS and user manual Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 22:59 ` [PATCH v2 13/24] Delete exit_inferior_silent(int pid) Pedro Alves
2019-10-17 23:00 ` [PATCH v2 14/24] Tweak handling of remote errors in response to resumption packet Pedro Alves
2019-10-18 20:23 ` [PATCH v2 00/24] Multi-target support John Baldwin
2019-10-29 19:13 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-09 19:32 ` John Baldwin
2020-01-09 19:50 ` Pedro Alves
2020-01-10 13:49 ` Aktemur, Tankut Baris
2020-01-10 15:40 ` [PATCH] Switch the inferior before outputting its id in "info inferiors" (Re: [PATCH v2 00/24] Multi-target support) Pedro Alves
2019-10-20 11:41 ` [PATCH v2 00/24] Multi-target support Philippe Waroquiers
2019-10-29 19:56 ` Pedro Alves
2019-11-01 14:56 ` Tom Tromey
2020-01-10 20:13 ` Pedro Alves
2020-08-04 3:30 ` Kevin Buettner
2020-08-06 15:16 ` Pedro Alves
2020-08-06 17:49 ` Tom Tromey
2020-08-07 22:43 ` Kevin Buettner
2020-08-12 18:45 ` Pedro Alves
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