core dump when watchpoint set

[Robert Norton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
> [mailto:gdb-owner@sourceware.org] On Behalf Of Michael Snyder
> Sent: 09 September 2008 23:10
> To: Joel Sherrill
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: core dump when watchpoint set
>
> Hmmm, yeah, a null value is being passed up, resulting in
> a null type being sent to value_type, which dereferences it
> without null-checking.
>
> And in fact, the current source (breakpoint.c) does check
> b->val != NULL before it makes the corresponding call.
>
> So you can expect that this is fixed.

In fact I fixed exactly this bug in our 6.8 port this week by applying this patch:

http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2008-02/msg00472.html

Robert