gdbserver/Windows: Fix "no program to debug" error
Trying to start a program with GDBserver on Windows yields the following error: $ gdbserver.exe --once :4444 simple_main.exe Killing process(es): 5008 No program to debug Exiting The error itself comes from the following code shortly after create_inferior gets called (in server.c::main): /* Wait till we are at first instruction in program. */ create_inferior (program_path.get (), program_args); [...] if (last_status.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED || last_status.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_SIGNALLED) was_running = 0; else was_running = 1; if (!was_running && !multi_mode) error ("No program to debug"); What happens is that the "last_status" global starts initialized as zeroes, which means last_status.kind == TARGET_WAITKIND_EXITED, and we expect create_inferior to be waiting for the inferior to start until reaching the SIGTRAP, and to set the "last_status" global to match that last event we received. I suspect this is an unintended side-effect of the following change... commit 2090129c Date: Thu Dec 22 21:11:11 2016 -0500 Subject: Share fork_inferior et al with gdbserver ... which removes some code in server.c that was responsible for starting the inferior in a functin that was named start_inferior, and looked like this: signal_pid = create_inferior (new_argv[0], &new_argv[0]); [...] /* Wait till we are at 1st instruction in program, return new pid (assuming success). */ last_ptid = mywait (pid_to_ptid (signal_pid), &last_status, 0, 0); The code has been transitioned to using fork_inferior, but sadly, only for the targets that support it. On Windows, the calls to wait setting "last_status" simply disappeared. This patch adds it back in the Windows-specific implementation of create_inferior. gdb/gdbserver/ChangeLog: PR server/23158: * win32-low.c (win32_create_inferior): Add call to my_wait setting last_status global.
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