Re: kgdb on amd64

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

On Jun 26,  3:55pm, fstd.lkml%gmail.com@localhost (Timo Buhrmester) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: kgdb on amd64

| On Wed, Jun 24, 2015 at 05:50:41PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| > >> The reason kgdb wasn't working all this time on amd64 is that GETC()
| > >> returns -1 immediately whether or not a character is available =>
| > >> all of kgdb's checksums fail due to the extra "-1" characters.
| Wow, seems like we analyzed the same bug simultaneously (see my "KGDB/i386 broken/supposed to work?" mails).
| 
| FWIW, I independently came to the same conclusion (see the "KGDB/i386 broken/supposed to work?" mails) with an almost identical "fix", except for the stray
| > +		continue;

Well, it is a stylistic "continue" :-)

| (Writing this just so we can avoid further duplication of effort)

Sure, I've committed mine since the consensus is that it is the way to go :-)

christos