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Re: [patch] gdbserver fails on 32-bit ppc rfs running in a-64 bit 2.6 linux kernel
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?
Hmm, looks like you found a real problem here; would you like to fix
it? Modern GDBs don't heavily use this code, because of the vCont
packet. Otherwise I'll fix it, but I may not find time for a bit.
> Can we use a thread value of "0" to indicate all threads or no-thread instead
> of "-1"? The condition "cont_thread > 0" becomes valid if we do that.
This value can be set from the remote protocol, so we would have to
transform it in Hc/Hg support also.
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