Hi all,



Attaching the patch for fetching the inferior process ID using current_inferior() function in AIX.



AIX is still using inferior_ptid.pid() to get the inferior pid instead of the new object current_inferior().With this it is not possible to debug any sample program as the it fails with assertion check for pid!=0.

In the gdb to access the process id of the debugged inferior process, a function current_inferior is used which returns the struct type variable inferior. As current_inferior() holds the inferior pid one must use this object to hold the inferior pid. The attached patch is to the current_inferior() object to get the inferior pid and continue debugging.



This can be demonstrated using the below sample program.



#include <stdio.h>

#include <stdlib.h>

int main()

{

   int i = 1;

   return 0;

}



Sample output without patch:

(gdb) b main

Breakpoint 1 at 0x1000070c: file test.cc, line 3.

(gdb) r

Starting program: /home/gdb_tests/test

inferior.c:303: internal-error: find_inferior_pid: Assertion `pid != 0' failed.

A problem internal to GDB has been detected,

further debugging may prove unreliable.

----- Backtrace -----

0x100e874a3 ???

0x100e8766b ???

0x10003724b ???

0x100037697 ???

0x1000363f3 ???

0x1000593a3 ???

0x1000594ff ???

0x10053aa5b ???

0x1002f6e37 ???

0x1002f2e7f ???

0x100b26ca3 ???

0x1003029bf ???

0x10077e373 ???

0x10077b107 ???

0x100001dff ???

0x100002007 ???

0x10000421b ???

0x1000042ef ???

0x100000a9f ???

0x100000583 ???

---------------------

inferior.c:303: internal-error: find_inferior_pid: Assertion `pid != 0' failed.



Output with patch:

(gdb) b main

Breakpoint 1 at 0x1000070c: file test.cc, line 3.

(gdb) r

Starting program: /home/gdb_tests/test

Breakpoint 1, main () at test.cc:3

3 int i = 1;



----------------------------------------------------------------------------------



Summary of the gdb.base testsuites.



Without Patch
------------------------

# of expected passes

8096

# of unexpected failures

2160

# of unexpected successes

1

# of expected failures

4

# of known failures

5

# of unresolved testcases

113

# of untested testcases

83

# of unsupported tests

40

# of paths in test names

2

# of duplicate test names

13

With Patch
-------------------

# of expected passes

13831

# of unexpected failures

7397

# of unexpected successes

1

# of expected failures

11

# of known failures

6

# of unresolved testcases

78

# of untested testcases

88

# of unsupported tests

63

# of paths in test names

1

# of duplicate test names

2

(See attached file: ChangeLog)(See attached file: current_inferior.patch).



Thanks and regards,

Aditya.