Re: gdb bugs showing while working on libcwd

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>]

On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 02:35:46AM +0200, Carlo Wood wrote:
> You now should have a core file.  Here is what I next do
> what reveals a problem with gdb:
> 
> ~/c++/libcwd/testsuite>gdb threads_threads_shared core.21920
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> 
> warning: core file may not match specified executable file.
> Core was generated by `threads_threads_shared'.
> Program terminated with signal 6, Aborted.
> Reading symbols from /home/carlo/c++/libcwd/.libs/libcwd_r.so.0...done.
> Loaded symbols for /home/carlo/c++/libcwd/.libs/libcwd_r.so.0
> Reading symbols from /lib/libdl.so.2...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libdl.so.2
> Reading symbols from /usr/local/gcc-3.0.4/lib/libstdc++.so.3...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/local/gcc-3.0.4/lib/libstdc++.so.3
> Reading symbols from /lib/libm.so.6...done.
> Loaded symbols for /lib/libm.so.6
> Reading symbols from /usr/local/gcc-3.0.4/lib/libgcc_s.so.1...done.
> Loaded symbols for /usr/local/gcc-3.0.4/lib/libgcc_s.so.1
> Reading symbols from /lib/libpthread.so.0...done.
> 
> warning: Unable to set global thread event mask: generic error
> [New Thread 1024 (LWP 21868)]

This specific bug is, however, fixed in GDB 5.2.  It won't help much. 
You are trying to debug a multithreaded application via core dump; only
via my or Mark Gross at Intel's patches does Linux dump enough
information to core files in order to see threads there.  You can find
them in the archives of the linux-kernel list.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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