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Re: Broken cast in linux-thread-db

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> I think the current behavior is actually more correct despite any
> warning.

GCC _always_ sign extends, which is definitely wrong here.

>  Were you fixing an observed problem?

If notify.u.bptaddr has the high bit set it will be sign extended, but the
breakpoint address when the thread event breakpoint is hit will be zero
extended, so they don't match and the breakpoint is not recognized.

Andreas.

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