From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Ranjan Parthasarathy Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: gdb / glibc querry Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:24:00 -0000 Message-id: <20010928192504.A32065@nevyn.them.org> References: X-SW-Source: 2001-09/msg00283.html On Thu, Sep 27, 2001 at 05:17:58AM -0700, Ranjan Parthasarathy wrote: > I am working on a pthreads aware gdbserver with an implementation as done in > gdb. > > I have a working release however occasionally my gdbserver causes a thread to > die reporting a SIGSEGV in __DTOR_END__ . This is somewhat random and I do > not get such an error in many programs but only in certain cases but > reproducable in all such cases. > > Also I found that the __DTOR_END__ is declared in some file in glibc. What is > the purpose of that and how is it used. __DTOR_END__ describes the end of the static destructors section. It's unlikely that you're really crashing there; more likely, it's the last symbol before the address where you are really crashing. Are you planning on posting this code soon (I hope so!)? Do you have a copyright assignment in place? -- Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer