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From: Mark Kettenis <kettenis@chello.nl>
To: "J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: RFA: Patch for corefile support
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 2003 13:22:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <86bs1wp24l.fsf@elgar.kettenis.dyndns.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "J. Johnston"'s message of "Mon, 27 Jan 2003 18:05:30 -0500"

"J. Johnston" <jjohnstn@redhat.com> writes:

> The attached patch fixes a problem in gdb when a corefile is read in
> after a multithreaded application has been debugged.  What happens is that
> the thread-db and lin-lwp layers are still around and run into internal
> errors.
> 
> The solution is simply to unpush the thread-db ops in its mourn_inferior
> routine.  If a corefile gets loaded, there is no thread-db to interfere.
> If another multi-threaded app gets loaded, the thread_db_new_objfile is
> designed to bring back the thread-db layer as needed.
> 
> This fix solves another failure in the killed.exp testsuite as well.
> 
> Ok to commit?

Sorry, no.  AFAICT this will break debugging programs that are
statically linked against libpthread.  As a minimum, this code should
check keep_thread_db before unpushing the target, but even then, I'm
not sure whether this is really OK.

Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2003-02-01 13:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-27 23:05 J. Johnston
2003-02-01 13:22 ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2003-02-01 17:00   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-03 22:58     ` J. Johnston
2003-02-03 23:39       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-18 17:31         ` J. Johnston
2003-06-02 19:22 ` Michael Snyder
2003-06-03 20:03   ` J. Johnston

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