From: Sergio Durigan Junior <sergiodj@redhat.com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
Cc: GDB Patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Improve readability of x86's SystemTap SDT probe support & fix bug & add testcase
Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:15:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r48wftyw.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131228034834.GG4532@adacore.com> (Joel Brobecker's message of "Sat, 28 Dec 2013 07:48:34 +0400")
On Saturday, December 28 2013, Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> This patch reorganizes code on gdb/i386-tdep.c's SystemTap SDT probe
>> support functions. Before it, the code to parse special operands on x86
>> lived in a single, big function. This patch creates 2 new functions
>> that makes the code more organized and removes a few indentation levels
>> (which is always good IMO).
>>
>> While I was making the patch, I decided to create some testcases for it
>> (by tweaking the probe's asm generated by GCC), and found a bug on the
>> parsing code for the triplet displacement operand (i.e., things like
>> "-4+8-20(%rbp)"). Well, since I was already at it, I created some
>> testcases for the two kinds of special operands handled by the code (the
>> triplet displacement mentioned above, and the three-argument
>> displacement like "(%rbx,%ebx,-8)"). This code is target-dependent so I
>> created it under gdb.arch/.
>>
>> Comments? OK to apply?
>
> First of all, thanks for creating a testcase!
My pleasure :-).
> I've only skimmed through the patch so far. Generally speaking,
> I definitely agree that simplifying large functions is a useful
> thing to do. Fixing bugs too :). It would be better, though, if
> we could separate the two into different patches, one that does
> the re-org, and nothing else. This one can be large, but we know
> the code hasn't really be changed. Perhaps "git diff/show -b"
> will even confirm that. And the second can include the fix and
> the testcase, and it'll be obvious from the diff what the fix is.
>
> Would you mind doing that?
Absolutely! I will post the two patches soon :-).
Thanks!
--
Sergio
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2013-12-27 4:26 Sergio Durigan Junior
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