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
2090129c36c7e582943b7d300968d19b46160d84
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.