+# Copyright 2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+# The purpose of this test is to verify that GDB is able to handle
+# the "-list-thread-groups --available" command, even when there is
+# no inferior. In particular, we want to verify that GDB does not
+# crash.
+
+load_lib mi-support.exp
+set MIFLAGS "-i=mi"
+
+gdb_exit
+if [mi_gdb_start] {
+ continue
+}
+
+# Try the "-list-thread-groups --available". This command can generate
+# a very large amount of output, potentially exceeding expect's buffer
+# size. So we consume the output in chunks.
+
+set test "-list-thread-groups --available"
+gdb_test_multiple $test $test {
+ -re "\}" {
+ exp_continue
+ }
+ -re "\r\n$gdb_prompt " {
+ pass $test
+ }
+}
+
+# Verify that GDB is still alive.
+
+mi_gdb_test "-data-evaluate-expression 1" \
+ ".*\\^done,value=\"1\"" \
+ "GDB is still alive"