Re: Remote debugging of multithreaded programs using gdbserver

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-23T06:45:22Z

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:12:12PM +0530, Subhashini Nagarajan Rao wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> As you stated I was able to reproduce it with the pthreads.c program and with backing
> off of breakpoints the bogus SIGTRAP doesnt come. If you dont mind could you please
> tell me what 'SMP' stands for in your mail.

SMP is Symmetric Multi-Processing. If you aren't testing multithreaded
programs on a machine with more than one physical processor, you won't
see entire classes of bugs.

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer