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Re: event-loop.c changes
- From: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- To: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at redhat dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 17:35:03 -0700
- Subject: Re: event-loop.c changes
Elena,
On Wednesday, October 2, 2002, at 04:08 PM, Elena Zannoni wrote:
Jim, I am looking at some of the changes in event-loop.c (from Keith's
branch).
I am not sure about a couple of things:
This comment:
void
gdb_setup_readline (void)
{
/* This function is a noop for the async case. The assumption is
that
the async setup is ALL done in gdb_init, and we would only mess
it up
here. The async stuff should really go away over time. */
if (event_loop_p)
{
[...]
}
}
You meant 'sync' instead of 'async'?
Yup...
The creation of these:
gdb_stdout = stdio_fileopen (stdout);
gdb_stderr = stdio_fileopen (stderr);
gdb_stdlog = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */
gdb_stdtarg = gdb_stderr; /* for moment */
Is done in main.c, then again here, in gdb-setup-readline().
But a comment in gdb_disable_readline suggests that they really
shouldn't be created here at all.
/* FIXME - It is too heavyweight to delete and remake these
every time you run an interpreter that needs readline.
It is probably better to have the interpreters cache these,
which in turn means that this needs to be moved into
interpreter
specific code. */
Theoretically, I think this is true. But when we did some profiling of
gdb under PB, this really didn't show up at all, and changing this
didn't seem worth the effort. This only happens when you switch
interpreters, and that is a pretty heavy-weight operation anyway, so
this is in the noise.
At the same time I was trying to get the interpreter stuff working, I
was also fixing a bunch of bugs in getting a real asynchronous target
to work (not just event_loop_p = 1, but with real async execution).
One of the big problems was that if anything went the teeniest bit
wrong, then the wrong stdio handler would be left in place and though
in fact gdb was just stopped waiting for input, it thought it was still
talking to the inferior, so it was effectively hung... So I was very
suspicious about anything that mucked with the input & outputs to gdb
at the time, which was probably why I was so harsh on this...
But I got all the async stuff working without having to fix this, so...
Jim
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