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Re: Multithreaded remote debug question


On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 03:52:44PM -0600, imburton@micron.com wrote:
> Hi, 	(My second attempt, the first one was horribly spaced) 

Still got your margins a bit wide.

> 	I have been unsuccessful in consistently remote debugging a multithreaded Linux application, 
> and I am looking for advice.  I am using gdb 5.3 (with patches for supporting glib 2.3) on both the host 
> and target systems.  I am not having troubles when debugging locally with gdb, only with gdbserver.  
> The majority of problems occur when trying to step or next after a breakpoint from within a thread, I 
> either get an unexpected SIGSEGV or a SIGTRAP in usleep().
> 
> Looking through this mailing list, and I see others have had problems quite similar to mine.  Does anyone 
> have advice?
> 
> 	Looking at this, http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2003-04/msg00068.html, message, 
> fixing this problem requires a change to the gdbserver protocol.  Is there a patch planned for this?  
> If not, will it be addressed in version 6.

There's no way to tell from this if you're talking about the right
problem.  Can you make a small test case which shows the problem, and
show us the commands you gave?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


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