This crash was detected when using GDB with the valgrind gdbserver.
To reproduce:
valgrind sleep 10000
In another window:
gdb
target remote | vgdb
p printf("make sleep print something\n")
=>
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'gdb_exception_error'
Aborted
The problem is that the valgrind gdbserver does not allow to change
registers when the inferior is blocked in a system call.
GDB then raises an exception. The exception causes the destructor
of
typedef std::unique_ptr<infcall_suspend_state, infcall_suspend_state_deleter>
infcall_suspend_state_up;
to be called. This destructor itself tries to restore the value of
the registers, and fails similarly. We must catch the exception in
the destructor to avoid crashing GDB.
If the destructor encounters a problem, no warning is produced if
there is an uncaught exception, as in this case, the user will already
be informed of a problem via this exception.
With this change, no crash anymore, and all the valgrind 3.15 tests
pass succesfully.
gdb/ChangeLog
2019-04-19 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
* inferior.h (struct infcall_suspend_state_deleter):
Catch exception in destructor to avoid crash.
2019-04-19 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
+ * inferior.h (struct infcall_suspend_state_deleter):
+ Catch exception in destructor to avoid crash.
+
+2019-04-19 Philippe Waroquiers <philippe.waroquiers@skynet.be>
+
* cli/cli-cmds.c (_initialize_cli_cmds): Move "shell" "!" alias
close to the add_com "shell".