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Re: [patch] gdbserver fails on 32-bit ppc rfs running in a-64 bit2.6 linux kernel
From: Jitendra Pawar <jitendra@linsyssoft.com>
Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 19:35:24 +0530
> > >On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 06:36:22PM +0530, Amit S. Kale wrote:
> > >> The strtoul change in my patch was already present. Sorry about that.
> > >>
> > >> You have changed the data type of thread_resume::thread as well as cont_thread
> > >> to unsigned long. "cont_thread = -1" and "(cont_thread > 0)" are still in
> > >> place. How does this work?
There are about 15 files in gdb source have statement pid_to_ptid (-1);
which finally returns -1 to server. Is it OK to replace -1 with 0 ?
Certainly not. pid_to_ptid(-1), a.k.a. minus_one_ptid has a very
special meaning within gdb. See the comment in inferior.h.
Mark