From: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] gdb: fix auxv caching
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2022 13:52:00 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e7811711-4b30-7e79-8c17-29d3c826a6bd@polymtl.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c4df9c55-8f4d-a607-e7f2-bab62b595607@FreeBSD.org>
On 10/10/22 14:32, John Baldwin wrote:
> On 10/8/22 5:39 PM, Simon Marchi wrote:
>>
>>> I think this approach is fine. Having two variants of target_read_auxv is
>>> a bit verbose, and I'm not sure it's abundantly clear to a new person when
>>> to use one vs the other. That said, these are used rarely, so probably
>>> will intuit the right thing by looking at existing uses. I agree with the
>>> idea that the auxv reads during gdbarch_core_read_description should
>>> effectively all be "raw" and uncached.
>>
>> The second one is perhaps not essential, call sites could call
>>
>> target_read_alloc (ops, TARGET_OBJECT_AUXV, NULL)
>>
>> themselves. But I find it convenient to have this little wrapper.
>>
>> As to how to know which overload to call, perhaps that can be improved
>> with better documentation and comments. I'm not sure what to add
>> though, the problem is so fresh in my mind that it's obvious to me. So
>> I'm open to suggestions.
>
> I don't have any good suggestions. Also, FWIW, the BSD bits are all
> fine with me.
>
> --
> John Baldwin
Ok, thanks.
Simon
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-10-11 17:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-07-19 14:45 [PATCH] Update auxv cache when there is no auxv cached data Luis Machado
2022-07-25 9:42 ` [PING][PATCH] " Luis Machado
2022-07-25 16:05 ` [PATCH] " John Baldwin
2022-07-25 18:03 ` Luis Machado
2022-07-25 19:13 ` John Baldwin
2022-08-02 15:05 ` Luis Machado
2022-08-02 16:05 ` John Baldwin
2022-08-05 15:46 ` [PATCH] Update auxv cache when inferior pid is 0 (no inferior) Luis Machado
2022-08-11 9:05 ` [PING][PATCH] " Luis Machado
2022-08-18 15:48 ` Luis Machado
2022-09-01 9:29 ` Luis Machado
2022-09-07 8:20 ` Luis Machado
2022-09-12 12:48 ` Luis Machado
2022-09-12 13:30 ` [PATCH] " Simon Marchi
2022-09-12 13:53 ` John Baldwin
2022-09-12 13:59 ` Luis Machado
2022-09-20 12:28 ` [PATCH] Invalidate auxv cache before creating a core target Luis Machado
2022-09-20 17:49 ` John Baldwin
2022-10-07 20:44 ` [PATCH] gdb: fix auxv caching Simon Marchi
2022-10-07 21:43 ` John Baldwin
2022-10-09 0:39 ` Simon Marchi
2022-10-10 18:32 ` John Baldwin
2022-10-11 17:52 ` Simon Marchi [this message]
2022-10-11 20:31 ` Pedro Alves
2022-10-11 20:34 ` Pedro Alves
2022-10-11 20:42 ` John Baldwin
2022-10-12 1:11 ` Simon Marchi
2022-10-10 9:33 ` Luis Machado
2022-10-11 17:53 ` Simon Marchi
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