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RE: Assertion failure because of missing inferior


> Below is a more complete solution, copying the code from:
> mi_cmd_execute().  It basically sets a thread, after setting the inferior.
> Sorry about missing it before.
> 
> Doing this lead me to another segfault.  I confirmed that it is part
> of 7.2 and not introduced by my patch.  So, I'm posting this patch now,
> but I will email and investigate about the new segfault.  There is
> not much point to this current patch until the segfault is fixed, but
> they are still two different issues, which is why I'm still posting this
> patch.

The segfault is caused by the fact that I removed the inferior while
it was still running.  I posted a question about that, but I think it is not
a normal use case, and therefore, does not prevent the below patch
from adding value.

What do you think of the below for 7_2?

Thanks
 
Marc

2010-12-10  Marc Khouzam  <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
   * mi/mi-main.c (mi_cmd_remove_inferior): Don't delete current inferior.
   (get_other_inferior): New.

### Eclipse Workspace Patch 1.0
#P src
Index: gdb/mi/mi-main.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/mi/mi-main.c,v
retrieving revision 1.178.2.4
diff -u -r1.178.2.4 mi-main.c
--- gdb/mi/mi-main.c    9 Dec 2010 19:22:59 -0000       1.178.2.4
+++ gdb/mi/mi-main.c    10 Dec 2010 20:45:44 -0000
@@ -1623,6 +1623,18 @@
   ui_out_field_fmt (uiout, "inferior", "i%d", inf->num);
 }

+/* Callback used to find the first inferior other than the
+   current one. */
+
+static int
+get_other_inferior (struct inferior *inf, void *arg)
+{
+  if (inf == current_inferior ())
+    return 0;
+
+  return 1;
+}
+
 void
 mi_cmd_remove_inferior (char *command, char **argv, int argc)
 {
@@ -1639,6 +1651,22 @@
   if (!inf)
     error ("the specified thread group does not exist");

+  if (inf == current_inferior ())
+    {
+      struct thread_info *tp = 0;
+      struct inferior *new_inferior
+       = iterate_over_inferiors (get_other_inferior, NULL);
+
+      if (new_inferior == NULL)
+       error (_("Cannot remove last inferior"));
+
+      set_current_inferior (new_inferior);
+      if (new_inferior->pid != 0)
+       tp = any_thread_of_process (new_inferior->pid);
+      switch_to_thread (tp ? tp->ptid : null_ptid);
+      set_current_program_space (new_inferior->pspace);
+    }
+
   delete_inferior_1 (inf, 1 /* silent */);
 }


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