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From: Chris January <chris.january@allinea.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: catch signal does not appear multi-inferior safe
Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 10:56:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1405076204.3524.8.camel@chris-xps13> (raw)

Hello,

It appears to me that the 'catch signal' support in GDB is not
multi-inferior safe. Combining the 'catch signal' command with the
'checkpoint' command, for example, results in an internal error:

break-catch-sig.c:152: internal-error:
signal_catchpoint_remove_location: Assertion `signal_catch_counts[iter]
> 0' failed.
A problem internal to GDB has been detected,
further debugging may prove unreliable.
Quit this debugging session? (y or n)

see the end of this e-mail for reproducer.

When checkpointing / catching a fork signal_catchpoint_remove_location
may be called twice in a row - once for the parent and once for the
child. This causes signal_catch_counts to go below 0. I would like some
advice on how to fix this problem as I am not sure what the correct fix
is.

Regards,
Chris January - VP Engineering - Allinea Software Ltd.


The problem can be reproduced using the following GDB commands - run GDB
from gdb/testsuite/gdb.base:

file checkpoint
break main
run
catch signal SIGSEGV
break 48
continue
checkpoint



             reply	other threads:[~2014-07-11 10:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-07-11 10:56 Chris January [this message]
2014-08-19 15:37 ` Pedro Alves
2014-08-28 10:58   ` Chris January

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