Patch to fix crashing experienced while using GDB

[David O'Brien]

On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 05:36:38PM -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 17:28 -0400, Coleman Kane wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > Some time ago, I got the attached patch from jhb (IIRC). It has worked
> > for me and cured a problem that was making a bunch of my code
> > un-traceable using GDB on FreeBSD. Debugging would result in a crash of
> > GDB, preventing me from seeing what bug I had that crashed my program.
> > 
> > Anyhow, my question is: Is there any reason this shouldn't be pushed
> > into the tree? Who do I need to talk to (obrien? the compiler
> > maintainers?) about it?
> 
> BTW, this has already been fixed in the GDB sources (using nearly the
> exact same code) since August 2004 in rev. 1.79 of gdb/target.c:
> 
> http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/src/gdb/target.c?rev=1.79&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=src

OK, I'll take a look at it.

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- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)