From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26258 invoked by alias); 29 Jun 2008 17:56:20 -0000 Received: (qmail 26249 invoked by uid 22791); 29 Jun 2008 17:56:20 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:55:57 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KD17y-0006Hc-5m for insight@sources.redhat.com; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:55:54 +0000 Received: from 75.139.7.185 ([75.139.7.185]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:55:54 +0000 Received: from gds by 75.139.7.185 with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:55:54 +0000 To: insight@sources.redhat.com From: Gene Smith Subject: Re: Crashes when "balloons" enabled Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:56:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <47F27765.8040905@redhat.com> <20080402000132.GA6223@nortel.com> <47F3C040.7030802@redhat.com> <47F3D27F.5070302@redhat.com> Reply-To: gds@chartertn.net Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.14 (X11/20080501) In-Reply-To: <47F3D27F.5070302@redhat.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact insight-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: insight-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-q2/txt/msg00085.txt.bz2 Keith Seitz wrote, On 04/02/2008 02:37 PM: > My bad... > > gds wrote: > >> 10. I go to the insight console window (not gtkterm's) and type gdb cmd >> source gdbinit >> to redownload the program to the target ram. It seems to reload the >> sections just like at startup (step 1). > > From this I can guess what the problem is. It was not registering with > my brain that your gdbinit file changed the state of the target. I'll > bet that varballoons in insight are simply not "noticing" that they must > discard their state when this occurs. > > Let me see if I can come up with a test case and a patch... > > Sorry! > > Keith > I haven't been working on this for several months since this bug was reported but now need to get back to it. Was wondering if there has been any progress on a possible patch as mentioned above? Thanks, -gene