GDB 15/16 crashing in add_thread_silent()

Tom Tromey tom@tromey.com
Fri Nov 14 20:13:35 GMT 2025


>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi via Gdb <gdb@sourceware.org> writes:

>> Earlier if the PID couldn't be found then pid is set to CORELOW_PID
>> anyway, so this works and prevents the crash (although, I think GDB
>> should check for the nullptr return and do _something_ non-crashy...
>> maybe?)

Simon> I agree that part seems clearly buggy, but I don't think you should
Simon> focus on that.  The problem has already happened earlier in the
Simon> execution.

See this thread as well

https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/20251024124208.1875651-1-tdevries@suse.de/

I wonder if the fix (assuming it arrives) should be in GDB 17.

Tom


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