Re: Bug#131033: gdb 5.1 dumped core on me [was: Emacs abort under gdb]

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From: Eli Zaretskii
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 17:09

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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Francesco Potorti` wrote:

> The most probable cause should be trying to access something out of the
> user space.

As others pointed out, GDB should not crash when it reads the debuggee's
memory, even if the pointer is invalid.  The debug interface should 
return a failure indication, and GDB should have said ``cannot access 
memory at addres 12345678''.  If the debug interface didn't return a 
failure indication, it can be due to a kernel bug, but I doubt that this 
is what happened.

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