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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Tsukasa OI via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] gdb/riscv: Cache per-BFD disassembler
Date: Fri, 14 Oct 2022 12:39:37 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <871qrameqe.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <760e2c443b1244b2a0a64f7f865e905b9ef90a72.1665287884.git.research_trasio@irq.a4lg.com> (Tsukasa OI via Gdb-patches's message of "Sun, 9 Oct 2022 03:59:03 +0000")

>>>>> Tsukasa OI via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

> +static int
> +riscv_print_insn (bfd_vma memaddr, disassemble_info *info)
> +{
> +  static disassembler_ftype disassemble_fn = NULL;
> +  static bfd *abfd = NULL;

This seems mildly dangerous, in that a BFD could be destroyed, then a
new one created with the same address.

It's better to cache things using the registry system.
See gdb/registry.h.  You can look for "registry<bfd>" for examples.

Tom

  reply	other threads:[~2022-10-14 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-10-09  3:59 [RFC PATCH 0/1] " Tsukasa OI
2022-10-09  3:59 ` [RFC PATCH 1/1] " Tsukasa OI
2022-10-14 18:39   ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2022-10-16 15:31     ` Tsukasa OI

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