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From: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@mips.com>
To: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
Cc: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>,
	<gdb-patches@sourceware.org>,
	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>, <tom@tromey.com>,
	<simon.marchi@ericsson.com>
Subject: Re: GDB 8.1 release -- 2018-01-08 update
Date: Mon, 08 Jan 2018 17:00:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1801081638060.20647@tp.orcam.me.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <77539a17-7418-86ac-09b0-bb68650a610d@redhat.com>

On Mon, 8 Jan 2018, Pedro Alves wrote:

> >  GDB uses the special thread ID 0, standing for `any', which older 
> > `gdbserver' versions do not recognise.  It does not verify beforehand 
> > whether `gdbserver' supports this request and does not handle an error 
> > reply gracefully.  Consequently an error reply to a `Hg0' packet issued 
> > causes GDB to lose track of what is going on, making it impossible to 
> > continue with the debug session.  This happens with all sessions in the 
> > initial connection handshake, making the combination of new GDB and old 
> > `gdbserver' unusable.
> 
> I'm looking at this.  I can reproduce it on x86-64 using a gdbserver
> from 2007 (git hash "f8b73d13b7ca^", the same revision Maciej's
> gdbserver is built from).  I confirm that 5cd63fda035d somehow
> introduces the regression.  No idea why yet.

 Great, thanks!

  Maciej


  reply	other threads:[~2018-01-08 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-08  7:49 Joel Brobecker
2018-01-08  9:55 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-01-08 16:35   ` Pedro Alves
2018-01-08 17:00     ` Maciej W. Rozycki [this message]
2018-01-09  1:28     ` [PATCH] Fix backwards compatibility with old GDBservers (PR remote/22597) (Re: GDB 8.1 release -- 2018-01-08 update) Pedro Alves
2018-01-10 11:18       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2018-01-11  0:36         ` Pedro Alves
2018-01-08 15:50 ` GDB 8.1 release -- 2018-01-08 update Simon Marchi
2018-01-08 15:53 ` Tom Tromey

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