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| author | Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> | 2001-09-13 22:48:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Jim Blandy <jimb@codesourcery.com> | 2001-09-13 22:48:19 +0000 |
| commit | e8816aacaefe54f71ded95f961884a04e1fa6e3a (patch) | |
| tree | a22c0090310a0d795cc676ce1df3764bb76f7a75 /gdb | |
| parent | c11cc227898a829a5010ad9075486b8a1971a623 (diff) | |
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* monitor.c (monitor_load): Don't delete symtab users, or reset
inferior_ptid.
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| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/monitor.c | 22 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/ChangeLog b/gdb/ChangeLog index a541ce4..71200c2 100644 --- a/gdb/ChangeLog +++ b/gdb/ChangeLog @@ -1,5 +1,8 @@ 2001-09-13 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> + * monitor.c (monitor_load): Don't delete symtab users, or reset + inferior_ptid. + * monitor.c (monitor_load): Fix indentation. 2001-09-11 Jim Blandy <jimb@redhat.com> diff --git a/gdb/monitor.c b/gdb/monitor.c index 0603806..b78496a 100644 --- a/gdb/monitor.c +++ b/gdb/monitor.c @@ -2206,15 +2206,19 @@ monitor_load (char *file, int from_tty) if (exec_bfd) write_pc (bfd_get_start_address (exec_bfd)); - inferior_ptid = null_ptid ; /* No process now */ - - /* This is necessary because many things were based on the PC at the - time that we attached to the monitor, which is no longer valid - now that we have loaded new code (and just changed the PC). - Another way to do this might be to call normal_stop, except that - the stack may not be valid, and things would get horribly - confused... */ - clear_symtab_users (); + /* There used to be code here which would clear inferior_ptid and + call clear_symtab_users. None of that should be necessary: + monitor targets should behave like remote protocol targets, and + since generic_load does none of those things, this function + shouldn't either. + + Furthermore, clearing inferior_ptid is *incorrect*. After doing + a load, we still have a valid connection to the monitor, with a + live processor state to fiddle with. The user can type + `continue' or `jump *start' and make the program run. If they do + these things, however, GDB will be talking to a running program + while inferior_ptid is null_ptid; this makes things like + reinit_frame_cache very confused. */ } static void |