Don't call clear_quit_flag in prepare_to_throw_exception
I think this is reminiscent of the time when a longjmp would always
jump to the top level. Nowaways code that throw exceptions other than
a quit, which may even be caught and handled without reaching the top
level. Certainly such exceptions shouldn't clear an interrupt
request...
(We also need to get rid of prepare_to_throw_exception in order to be
able to just do "throw ex;" in C++.)
One could argue that we should clear the quit flag when we throw a
quit from the SIGINT handler, when immediate_quit is in effect, to
handle a race, here:
immediate_quit++;
QUIT;
... that's the usual pattern code must use when enabling
immediate_quit. The QUIT is there to catch the case of Ctrl-C having
already been pressed before immediate_quit was enabled. However, this
can happen:
immediate_quit++;
<< Ctrl-C pressed here too.
QUIT;
And in that case, if the quit flag was already set, it'll stay set
even after throwing a quit from the SIGINT handler. The end result is
a double quit. But OTOH, the user did press Ctrl-C two times. Since
I'm getting rid of immediate_quit, I'm not bothering with this.
gdb/ChangeLog:
2016-04-12 Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
* exceptions.c (prepare_to_throw_exception): Don't clear the quit
flag.