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catch signal does not appear multi-inferior safe
- From: Chris January <chris dot january at allinea dot com>
- To: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2014 11:56:44 +0100
- Subject: catch signal does not appear multi-inferior safe
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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