Re: core dump when watchpoint set

[Joel Sherrill <joel.sherrill@oarcorp.com>]

Robert Norton wrote:
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
>> [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Michael Snyder
>> Sent: 09 September 2008 23:10
>> To: Joel Sherrill
>> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
>> Subject: Re: core dump when watchpoint set
>>
>> Hmmm, yeah, a null value is being passed up, resulting in
>> a null type being sent to value_type, which dereferences it
>> without null-checking.
>>
>> And in fact, the current source (breakpoint.c) does check
>> b->val != NULL before it makes the corresponding call.
>>
>> So you can expect that this is fixed.
>>     
>
> In fact I fixed exactly this bug in our 6.8 port this week by applying this patch:
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-02/msg00472.html
>
>   
Thank you.  I can confirm it fixes the issue when used with psim
as well.

Ralf.. could you add this patch to the RTEMS gdb 6.8 set?  Thanks.
> Robert
>
>   


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