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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/ChangeLog | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/breakpoint.c | 28 |
2 files changed, 31 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index 97fc046f944..d766ee2e025 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,3 +1,9 @@ +2001-11-11 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> + + From Mark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>: + * breakpoint.c (breakpoint_re_set_one): Don't discard SHLIB + breakpoints when they fail. + 2001-11-10 Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com> * printcmd.c, valprint.c, language.c, linespec.c, infcmd.c, diff --git a/gdb/breakpoint.c b/gdb/breakpoint.c index 848a07fe0ae..cf2b6c05823 100644 --- a/gdb/breakpoint.c +++ b/gdb/breakpoint.c @@ -7014,10 +7014,32 @@ breakpoint_re_set_one (PTR bint) delete_breakpoint (b); return 0; } - /* In case we have a problem, disable this breakpoint. We'll restore - its status if we succeed. */ + /* HACK: cagney/2001-11-11: kettenis/2001-11-11: MarkK wrote: + + ``And a hack it is, although Apple's Darwin version of GDB + contains an almost identical hack to implement a "future + break" command. It seems to work in many real world cases, + but it is easy to come up with a test case where the patch + doesn't help at all.'' + + ``It seems that the way GDB implements breakpoints - in - + shared - libraries was designed for a.out shared library + systems (SunOS 4) where shared libraries were loaded at a + fixed address in memory. Since ELF shared libraries can (and + will) be loaded at any address in memory, things break. + Fixing this is not trivial. Therefore, I'm not sure whether + we should add this hack to the branch only. I cannot + guarantee that things will be fixed on the trunk in the near + future.'' + + In case we have a problem, disable this breakpoint. We'll + restore its status if we succeed. Don't disable a + shlib_disabled breakpoint though. There's a fair chance we + can't re-set it if the shared library it's in hasn't been + loaded yet. */ save_enable = b->enable_state; - b->enable_state = bp_disabled; + if (b->enable_state != bp_shlib_disabled) + b->enable_state = bp_disabled; set_language (b->language); input_radix = b->input_radix; |