From: Luis Machado <lgustavo@codesourcery.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>,
Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>,
<gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [rfc] PR 20569, segv in follow_exec
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 16:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91ae2166-15c4-d356-5b50-ecdd3402740d@codesourcery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <14a10c11-cda1-945c-560a-ee619fe59101@redhat.com>
On 10/19/2016 08:37 AM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 10/18/2016 07:11 PM, Luis Machado wrote:
>
>> I went through the patch and, although this code as a whole is a bit on
>> the convoluted side, it looks reasonable to me.
>>
>> Segfaults are not supposed to happen, so allowing the session to
>> continue is a good thing IMO.
>>
>> Sounds like a good candidate for master and even stable branches.
>
> I didn't look at the patch in detail yet, but I think it'd be
> very good to have tests?
>
> Thanks,
> Pedro Alves
>
I fixed a gotcha with the patch and i have a reproducer that makes GDB
crash on x86-64. I'll craft a test.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 16:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-10-06 22:51 Sandra Loosemore
2016-10-18 18:11 ` Luis Machado
2016-10-19 13:37 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-19 16:14 ` Luis Machado [this message]
2016-10-19 20:19 ` Luis Machado
2016-10-20 23:27 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-21 18:30 ` Luis Machado
2016-10-21 18:33 ` Pedro Alves
2016-10-21 18:34 ` Luis Machado
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