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Re: [RFA] bpstat_do_actions in one place


> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 15:50:24 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: vladimir@codesourcery.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> 
> > > If that happened, how would you stop the example I gave?
> > 
> > How would one stop _any_ endless loop?  Ctrl-C, I guess.
> 
> But it won't work.  C-c is implemented as the exact same thing as
> typing q at a pagination prompt: eventually a quit exception is
> thrown.  So you will only stop the currently printing backtrace and
> things will keep on going.

<Shrug> Another bug, I guess.  We should be throwing to top level.
And no, I don't think `q' should do the same as Ctrl-C.


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