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From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>,  gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove 'if' from GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:02:03 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bk7gluvo.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ttn3qyp8.fsf@tromey.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:58:43 -0700")

Simon> In infpy_write_memory for instance, GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION is not
Simon> called within the catch block.  Is it normal?

> Nope, oops.  Here's v2, that fixes this and also removes an unnecessary
> return -- which is kind of the main motivation of this change, the 'if'
> sometimes results in the compiler thinking the macro doesn't return,
> whereas it does.

>     Remove 'if' from GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION
    
>     This removes the embedded 'if' from GDB_PY_HANDLE_EXCEPTION and
>     GDB_PY_SET_HANDLE_EXCEPTION.  I believe this 'if' was necessary with
>     the old gdb try/catch macros, but it no longer is: these should only
>     ever be called from a 'catch' block, where it's already known that an
>     exception was thrown.
    
>     Simon pointed out, though, that in a few spots, these were in facts
>     called outside of 'catch' blocks.  This patch cleans up these spots.
>     I also found one spot where a redundant 'return nullptr' could be
>     removed.

I'm checking this in.

Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2024-03-14 15:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-22 18:44 Tom Tromey
2023-12-22 19:16 ` Simon Marchi
2024-01-24  1:58   ` Tom Tromey
2024-03-14 15:02     ` Tom Tromey [this message]

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