[patch] gdbserver fails on 32-bit ppc rfs running in a-64 bit 2.6 linux kernel

[Daniel Jacobowitz]

On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:35:24PM +0530, Jitendra Pawar wrote:
>  
> > > >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 ? I
> would like to know significance of returning pid -1, 0 and positive
> integer.

Amit's original issue is in gdbserver; how do any of the invalid GDB
pids get sent over the wire to gdbserver?  That shouldn't happen.

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