Re: GDB 15/16 crashing in add_thread_silent()

Tom Tromey <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Nov 2025 13:13:35 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>>>>> "Simon" == Simon Marchi via Gdb <[email protected]> writes:

>> Earlier if the PID couldn't be found then pid is set to CORELOW_PID
>> anyway, so this works and prevents the crash (although, I think GDB
>> should check for the nullptr return and do _something_ non-crashy...
>> maybe?)

Simon> I agree that part seems clearly buggy, but I don't think you should
Simon> focus on that.  The problem has already happened earlier in the
Simon> execution.

See this thread as well

https://inbox.sourceware.org/gdb-patches/[email protected]/

I wonder if the fix (assuming it arrives) should be in GDB 17.

Tom