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Re: How to interpret (encoded?) gdb response
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Andr? P?nitz <apoenitz at trolltech dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:02:49 -0400
- Subject: Re: How to interpret (encoded?) gdb response
- References: <200808141113.21141.apoenitz@trolltech.com>
On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 11:13:08AM +0200, Andr? P?nitz wrote:
>
> Hi all.
>
> I do the foillowing:
>
> - run an inferior containing a tight endless loop
> - attach to it with gdb -pid=<id>
> - run 'kill <pid>' in shell
> - do -exec-continue
>
> then I get:
>
> 67^running
> (gdb)
> &"Cannot access memory at address 0x7fff6ca72a4c\n"
> &"\240\240\354\003\n"
> 67^error,msg="\240\240\354\003"
>
> Does that msg have any meaning, i.e. how would I "decode" it?
> The message appears also in a non-MI environment, but is even
> less legible there...
No, it's some sort of bug or bad pointer. Does this happen in HEAD?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery