Re: gdb 5.0 & pthreads

[Mark Kettenis]

Uncle George <address@hidden> writes:

> It does appear that gdb now has pthreads. & it does keep track of
> threads.
> 
> Unfortunately it just does not behave rite.  Apparently some thread did
> an exit(), which appears to have caught gdb's attention.  The exit
> should have caught the attention of the pthread manager, which would
> have done any 'clean-up' processing. Without gdb in the equation, the
> gftp program goes on for some time, but eventually crashes/segfaults for
> other reasons.

This is a known problem with GDB 5.0.  Fixed in the current
development version.  The fix should be in GDB 5.1 when that is
released.  Meanwhile you could try a development snapshot.  Refer to
http://sources.redhat.com/gdb for more information.

Mark