gdb-6.0/gdb/gdbserver/target.c::set_desired_inferior()

[Albert Ho]

The first spawn thread died on startup under gdbserver. It has a pid of 
1024. System was just started and the main thread has pid 110.

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

>On Thu, Feb 26, 2004 at 07:22:59PM -0800, Albert Ho wrote:
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>>Should gdb-6.0/gdb/gdbserver/target.c::set_desired_inferior() always 
>>succeed when dealing with 's' in main?
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>>I run into a problem when a thread is not found in 
>>set_desired_inferior(), causing &status to become some bogus addr and 
>>hence gdbserve segv.
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>I've never seen this behavior before.  Please explain how it happens; I
>don't see any way to get a bogus pointer unless your thread list is
>corrupted.
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