Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:20:37 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" <obrien@FreeBSD.org> To: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Patch to fix crashing experienced while using GDB Message-ID: <20080418002037.GA11705@dragon.NUXI.org> In-Reply-To: <1208208998.1279.54.camel@localhost> References: <1208208513.1279.51.camel@localhost> <1208208998.1279.54.camel@localhost>
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On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:36:38PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 17:28 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Some time ago, I got the attached patch from jhb (IIRC). It has worked > > for me and cured a problem that was making a bunch of my code > > un-traceable using GDB on FreeBSD. Debugging would result in a crash of > > GDB, preventing me from seeing what bug I had that crashed my program. > > > > Anyhow, my question is: Is there any reason this shouldn't be pushed > > into the tree? Who do I need to talk to (obrien? the compiler > > maintainers?) about it? > > BTW, this has already been fixed in the GDB sources (using nearly the > exact same code) since August 2004 in rev. 1.79 of gdb/target.c: > > http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gdb/target.c?rev=1.79&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src OK, I'll take a look at it. -- - David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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