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Subject: Re: How to tell gdb about dlls using remote protocol
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> Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2007 09:34:56 -0800
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> 
> > Hmm, perhaps it successfully gets you out and only misses frames.  I'm
> > pretty sure I remember that when debugging a Windows build of GDB, the
> > select helper threads live somewhere in NTDLL without a valid frame.
> 
> I am not sure about that particular thread. But for the other ones,
> we are indeed counting on the fact that all we lose is skipping one
> frame.
> 
> > I'd be curious to see it, at least, but I'm not sure what we can do.
> 
> Here it is. The diff is probably malformed, because I had to remove
> a couple of patches we backported from head, but that should give
> you the idea.

I wouldn't be too thrilled to have this Windows-specific code in the
generic i386-tdep.c.