RE: [patch] gdbserver fails on 32-bit ppc rfs running in a-64 bit2.6 linux kernel

[Jitendra Pawar <jitendra at linsyssoft dot com>]

Hi,

>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.
>

I have understood the problem and I'll like to fix it. shall I do it?

- Jitendra

>> 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.