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[PATCH/RFC 02/02 v2] Refactor PRPSINFO handling on GDB

Sergio Durigan Junior sergiodj@redhat.com
Fri Jan 11 17:03:00 GMT 2013 
On Friday, January 11 2013, Pedro Alves wrote:

> On 01/11/2013 03:53 AM, Sergio Durigan Junior wrote:

>>>> +  /* Generating and copying the program's arguments.  `get_inferior_args'
>>>> +     may throw, but we want to continue the execution anyway.  */
>>>> +  TRY_CATCH (ex, RETURN_MASK_ERROR)
>>>> +    {
>>>> +      infargs = get_inferior_args ();
>>>> +    }
>>>> +
>>>
>>> Hmm?  We were not doing that before.  What exception is that?
>> 
>> `get_inferior_args' calls `construct_inferior_arguments', which can call
>> `error' in an specific scenario (not STARTUP_WITH_SHELL, arguments that
>> contain spaces).
>
> This is an example of something that should be split into
> its own change, along with its own rationale.  This is
> independent of any refactoring of PRPSINFO handling.
> We're already calling get_inferior_args nowadays, and I don't
> ever remember this error being reported as a problem.

My first version of the patch didn't contain the TRY_CATCH part.  It was
Jan who made this suggestion, and I thought it made sense.

I really think a TRY_CATCH does not cause any harm here, but if you
insist, I can easily remove it from the patch.

-- 
Sergio
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