Semaphores macro error

[Chris Johns]

Joel Sherrill wrote:
> Does changing it to
> 
> printf "No waiting threads"
> 
> without the formatting string help?
> 
> It is very weird.
> 

The command 'printf "%s", x' is expecting the string to be one in your target 
not inside gdb's address space and called 'x'. If you supply a literal string 
GDB cannot side step the target memory requirement so attempts to create the 
string on the target for you by allocating some memory and coping the string 
into it. You can just print the string if you know what it is as you are now 
doing.

If you start a native gdb on a host platform you can:

[cjohns at moa ~]$ gdb
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu".
(gdb) printf "%i\n", 2
2
(gdb) printf "%s\n", "Hello World"
evaluation of this expression requires the target program to be active
(gdb) q

Why the difference between a literal integer verses a string ? The code in GDB 
uses 'value_as_address' for the string while 'value_as_long' is for the 
integer. I have not looked in 'value_as_address' but suspect this is complex 
having to deal with all address types for the specific target, eg string, 
functions etc. The code after this performs a 'read_memory' from the target 
before printing it.

Regards
Chris