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Re: Can't debug Threaded application
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 03:06:39AM +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:08:53PM -0400, jo@atsresults.com wrote:
> >
> >>Does no one have answer to this problem?
> >>
> >>Is GDB useless for threaded applications now?
> >
> >Of course not. No one's responded because no one has advice that you
> >can't find in the list archives. This almost always means something is
> >broken on your installation. You may want to report it to Trustix,
> >since that's your distribution.
>
> I thought it was just me that had thread problems. In a program,
> when i step over:
>
> result = gnome_vfs_directory_list_load (&dir_list, directory,
> GNOME_VFS_FILE_INFO_DEFAULT);
>
> I get:
>
> (gdb) next
>
> Program received signal SIG33, Real-time event 33.
> [Switching to Thread -1230148688 (LWP 3083)]
> 0xb7a975a9 in poll () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
>
> and execution seems to abort because i can't reach any
> breakpoints after this point. The program was compiled
> with gcc-3.4.4 -g -O0. Gdb is version 6.3.
I recommend submitting a complete test case, since this sort of thing
does work for many people.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC