From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2790 invoked by alias); 27 Feb 2004 20:04:36 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 2781 invoked from network); 27 Feb 2004 20:04:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 27 Feb 2004 20:04:35 -0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.30 #1 (Debian)) id 1AwoDr-0003Af-72; Fri, 27 Feb 2004 15:04:35 -0500 Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 20:04:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Albert Ho Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb-6.0/gdb/gdbserver/target.c::set_desired_inferior() Message-ID: <20040227200435.GA12145@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Albert Ho , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <403EB813.90408@intellambda.com> <20040227032447.GA24747@nevyn.them.org> <403FA285.8070808@intellambda.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <403FA285.8070808@intellambda.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i X-SW-Source: 2004-02/txt/msg00419.txt.bz2 On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:03:17PM -0800, Albert Ho wrote: > The first spawn thread died on startup under gdbserver. It has a pid of > 1024. System was just started and the main thread has pid 110. Sorry, but that isn't enough information to make a guess at what your problem is. It sounds like your system has problems with debugging. > > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > >On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:22:59PM -0800, Albert Ho wrote: > > > > > >>Should gdb-6.0/gdb/gdbserver/target.c::set_desired_inferior() always > >>succeed when dealing with 's' in main? > >> > >>I run into a problem when a thread is not found in > >>set_desired_inferior(), causing &status to become some bogus addr and > >>hence gdbserve segv. > >> > >> > > > >I've never seen this behavior before. Please explain how it happens; I > >don't see any way to get a bogus pointer unless your thread list is > >corrupted. > > > > > > > > > -- Daniel Jacobowitz MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer