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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Handle unwinding from SEGV on Windows
Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2023 08:38:43 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mt3f7qfg.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230321194240.1766622-1-tromey@adacore.com> (Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches's message of "Tue, 21 Mar 2023 13:42:40 -0600")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Tom> PR win32/30255 points out that a call to a NULL function pointer will
Tom> leave gdb unable to "bt" on Windows.

Tom> I tracked this down to the amd64 windows unwinder.  If we treat this
Tom> scenario as if it were a leaf function, unwinding works fine.

Tom> I'm not completely sure this patch is the best way.  I considered
Tom> having it check for 'pc==0' -- but then I figured this could affect
Tom> any inaccessible PC, not just the special 0 value.

Tom> No test case because I can't run dejagnu tests on Windows.  I tested
Tom> this by hand using the test case in the bug.

Tom> Bug: https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=30255

I'm checking this in.

Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2023-04-10 14:38 UTC|newest]

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2023-03-21 19:42 Tom Tromey
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