[binutils-gdb] Fix asertion failure while analysing core files in AIX with terminated threads.

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=edf0ae3b9f1ca23daaa55628683edc9a3360286f

commit edf0ae3b9f1ca23daaa55628683edc9a3360286f
Author: Aditya Vidyadhar Kamath <[email protected]>
Date:   Tue Mar 24 09:15:10 2026 -0500

    Fix asertion failure while analysing core files in AIX with terminated threads.
    
    If we analyse core files today in AIX ( few of them ) we get,
      regcache.c:432: internal-error: get_thread_regcache:
      Assertion `thread->state != THREAD_EXITED' failed.
    
    The reason being the aix-thread.c file where root cause is the sync_threadlists()
    function. When reading an AIX core file, threads are reported by
    libpthread library as being in PST_TERM (terminated) state, which
    is correct since process crashed. However, sync_threadlists() was
    calling delete_thread() for these terminated threads, marking them
    as THREAD_EXITED in GDBs internal state.
    
    Later, when GDB tried to fetchregisters or access frame information
    for these threads during core file analysis, it would hit an
    assertion in get_thread_regcache() that prevents accessing exited threads.
    
    In AIX we see this in 7.3 from any python3 core file dumps.
    
    The fix is to call sync_threadlists () only for a program in execution and
    not for core files.
    
    Approved-By: Ulrich Weigand <[email protected]>

Diff:
---
 gdb/aix-thread.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/gdb/aix-thread.c b/gdb/aix-thread.c
index c2e6b6d2bd6..5469ddca4f7 100644
--- a/gdb/aix-thread.c
+++ b/gdb/aix-thread.c
@@ -884,7 +884,11 @@ pd_update (pid_t pid)
   if (status != PTHDB_SUCCESS)
     return ptid_t (pid);
 
-  sync_threadlists (pid);
+  /* Attempt to sync_threadlists () only when debugging object files
+     and not core files since list of threads never change for core
+     files.  */
+  if (target_has_execution ())
+    sync_threadlists (pid);
 
   /* Define "current thread" as one that just received a trap signal.  */