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diff --git a/gdb/frame.c b/gdb/frame.c
index d3f3056..54dc833 100644
--- a/gdb/frame.c
+++ b/gdb/frame.c
@@ -43,6 +43,15 @@
#include "hashtab.h"
#include "valprint.h"
+/* The sentinel frame terminates the innermost end of the frame chain.
+ If unwound, it returns the information needed to construct an
+ innermost frame.
+
+ The current frame, which is the innermost frame, can be found at
+ sentinel_frame->prev. */
+
+static struct frame_info *sentinel_frame;
+
static struct frame_info *get_prev_frame_raw (struct frame_info *this_frame);
static const char *frame_stop_reason_symbol_string (enum unwind_stop_reason reason);
@@ -65,7 +74,7 @@ enum cached_copy_status
/* We keep a cache of stack frames, each of which is a "struct
frame_info". The innermost one gets allocated (in
- wait_for_inferior) each time the inferior stops; current_frame
+ wait_for_inferior) each time the inferior stops; sentinel_frame
points to it. Additional frames get allocated (in get_prev_frame)
as needed, and are chained through the next and prev fields. Any
time that the frame cache becomes invalid (most notably when we
@@ -323,6 +332,8 @@ fprint_frame_id (struct ui_file *file, struct frame_id id)
fprintf_unfiltered (file, "!stack");
else if (id.stack_status == FID_STACK_UNAVAILABLE)
fprintf_unfiltered (file, "stack=<unavailable>");
+ else if (id.stack_status == FID_STACK_SENTINEL)
+ fprintf_unfiltered (file, "stack=<sentinel>");
else
fprintf_unfiltered (file, "stack=%s", hex_string (id.stack_addr));
fprintf_unfiltered (file, ",");
@@ -562,6 +573,7 @@ frame_unwind_caller_id (struct frame_info *next_frame)
}
const struct frame_id null_frame_id = { 0 }; /* All zeros. */
+const struct frame_id sentinel_frame_id = { 0, 0, 0, FID_STACK_SENTINEL, 0, 1, 0 };
const struct frame_id outer_frame_id = { 0, 0, 0, FID_STACK_INVALID, 0, 1, 0 };
struct frame_id
@@ -797,6 +809,10 @@ frame_find_by_id (struct frame_id id)
if (!frame_id_p (id))
return NULL;
+ /* Check for the sentinel frame. */
+ if (frame_id_eq (id, sentinel_frame_id))
+ return sentinel_frame;
+
/* Try using the frame stash first. Finding it there removes the need
to perform the search by looping over all frames, which can be very
CPU-intensive if the number of frames is very high (the loop is O(n)
@@ -1474,10 +1490,9 @@ create_sentinel_frame (struct program_space *pspace, struct regcache *regcache)
/* Link this frame back to itself. The frame is self referential
(the unwound PC is the same as the pc), so make it so. */
frame->next = frame;
- /* Make the sentinel frame's ID valid, but invalid. That way all
- comparisons with it should fail. */
+ /* The sentinel frame has a special ID. */
frame->this_id.p = 1;
- frame->this_id.value = null_frame_id;
+ frame->this_id.value = sentinel_frame_id;
if (frame_debug)
{
fprintf_unfiltered (gdb_stdlog, "{ create_sentinel_frame (...) -> ");
@@ -1487,10 +1502,6 @@ create_sentinel_frame (struct program_space *pspace, struct regcache *regcache)
return frame;
}
-/* Info about the innermost stack frame (contents of FP register). */
-
-static struct frame_info *current_frame;
-
/* Cache for frame addresses already read by gdb. Valid only while
inferior is stopped. Control variables for the frame cache should
be local to this module. */
@@ -1511,6 +1522,8 @@ static struct frame_info *get_prev_frame_always_1 (struct frame_info *this_frame
struct frame_info *
get_current_frame (void)
{
+ struct frame_info *current_frame;
+
/* First check, and report, the lack of registers. Having GDB
report "No stack!" or "No memory" when the target doesn't even
have registers is very confusing. Besides, "printcmd.exp"
@@ -1526,29 +1539,23 @@ get_current_frame (void)
if (get_traceframe_number () < 0)
validate_registers_access ();
- if (current_frame == NULL)
- {
- int stashed;
- struct frame_info *sentinel_frame =
- create_sentinel_frame (current_program_space, get_current_regcache ());
-
- /* Set the current frame before computing the frame id, to avoid
- recursion inside compute_frame_id, in case the frame's
- unwinder decides to do a symbol lookup (which depends on the
- selected frame's block).
-
- This call must always succeed. In particular, nothing inside
- get_prev_frame_always_1 should try to unwind from the
- sentinel frame, because that could fail/throw, and we always
- want to leave with the current frame created and linked in --
- we should never end up with the sentinel frame as outermost
- frame. */
- current_frame = get_prev_frame_always_1 (sentinel_frame);
- gdb_assert (current_frame != NULL);
-
- /* No need to compute the frame id yet. That'll be done lazily
- from inside get_frame_id instead. */
- }
+ if (sentinel_frame == NULL)
+ sentinel_frame =
+ create_sentinel_frame (current_program_space, get_current_regcache ());
+
+ /* Set the current frame before computing the frame id, to avoid
+ recursion inside compute_frame_id, in case the frame's
+ unwinder decides to do a symbol lookup (which depends on the
+ selected frame's block).
+
+ This call must always succeed. In particular, nothing inside
+ get_prev_frame_always_1 should try to unwind from the
+ sentinel frame, because that could fail/throw, and we always
+ want to leave with the current frame created and linked in --
+ we should never end up with the sentinel frame as outermost
+ frame. */
+ current_frame = get_prev_frame_always_1 (sentinel_frame);
+ gdb_assert (current_frame != NULL);
return current_frame;
}
@@ -1729,6 +1736,25 @@ get_next_frame (struct frame_info *this_frame)
return NULL;
}
+/* Return the frame that THIS_FRAME calls. If THIS_FRAME is the
+ innermost (i.e. current) frame, return the sentinel frame. Thus,
+ unlike get_next_frame(), NULL will never be returned. */
+
+struct frame_info *
+get_next_frame_sentinel_okay (struct frame_info *this_frame)
+{
+ gdb_assert (this_frame != NULL);
+
+ /* Note that, due to the manner in which the sentinel frame is
+ constructed, this_frame->next still works even when this_frame
+ is the sentinel frame. But we disallow it here anyway because
+ calling get_next_frame_sentinel_okay() on the sentinel frame
+ is likely a coding error. */
+ gdb_assert (this_frame != sentinel_frame);
+
+ return this_frame->next;
+}
+
/* Observer for the target_changed event. */
static void
@@ -1745,7 +1771,7 @@ reinit_frame_cache (void)
struct frame_info *fi;
/* Tear down all frame caches. */
- for (fi = current_frame; fi != NULL; fi = fi->prev)
+ for (fi = sentinel_frame; fi != NULL; fi = fi->prev)
{
if (fi->prologue_cache && fi->unwind->dealloc_cache)
fi->unwind->dealloc_cache (fi, fi->prologue_cache);
@@ -1757,10 +1783,10 @@ reinit_frame_cache (void)
obstack_free (&frame_cache_obstack, 0);
obstack_init (&frame_cache_obstack);
- if (current_frame != NULL)
+ if (sentinel_frame != NULL)
annotate_frames_invalid ();
- current_frame = NULL; /* Invalidate cache */
+ sentinel_frame = NULL; /* Invalidate cache */
select_frame (NULL);
frame_stash_invalidate ();
if (frame_debug)