Mirror of the gdb-patches mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
To: Sandra Loosemore <sandra@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Cannot execute this command without a live selected thread.
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 18:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <544A972E.3040007@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <544A92DD.3010503@codesourcery.com>

On 10/24/2014 06:56 PM, Sandra Loosemore wrote:

> I dug around in the svn history for our stub library.   We made that 
> change to the thread packet handling because if it returned an empty 
> response to qfThreadInfo instead, GDB persistently complained:
> 
> warning: RMT ERROR : failed to get remote thread list.
> 
> especially when being run from Eclipse.
> 
> It seemed then that debugging worked OK in spite of the warnings, but 
> the messages looked both frightening and incomprehensible to users. 
> This was back in 2010, so maybe GDB doesn't do that any more.

Ah, yes, that rang a bell.  Vladimir fixed it in GDB, in 2010:

  https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2010-10/msg00293.html

Thanks,
Pedro Alves


      reply	other threads:[~2014-10-24 18:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-24 15:55 Sandra Loosemore
2014-10-24 16:07 ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-24 17:08   ` Sandra Loosemore
2014-10-24 17:23     ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-24 17:40       ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-24 19:02         ` Sandra Loosemore
2014-10-24 19:19         ` Doug Evans
2014-10-24 19:40           ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-24 20:02             ` Doug Evans
2014-10-24 20:20               ` Pedro Alves
2014-10-24 20:38                 ` Doug Evans
2014-10-24 20:52                   ` Remove libthread_db -> remove thread_stratum? [was Re: Cannot execute this command without a live selected thread.] Doug Evans
2014-10-24 22:07                   ` Cannot execute this command without a live selected thread Pedro Alves
2014-10-27 19:53         ` Sandra Loosemore
2014-10-28 12:10           ` [pushed] Workaround remote targets that report an empty list to qfThreadInfo (Re: Cannot execute this command without a live selected thread.) Pedro Alves
2014-10-29 19:16             ` Doug Evans
2014-10-24 17:57       ` Cannot execute this command without a live selected thread Sandra Loosemore
2014-10-24 18:15         ` Pedro Alves [this message]

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=544A972E.3040007@redhat.com \
    --to=palves@redhat.com \
    --cc=gdb-patches@sourceware.org \
    --cc=sandra@codesourcery.com \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body. 
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox