Re: gdb-6.0/gdb/gdbserver/target.c::set_desired_inferior()

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:12:08PM -0800, Albert Ho wrote:
> I am trying to decide whether the problem is in the thread library or gdb.
> 4 facts:
> 1) The program runs fine on its own.
> 2) gdbserver can debug the program if let the process starts first 
> (hence loading all the library), then use --attach.
> 3) Run gdb gdbserver, then start the program in gdbserver also works.
> 4) Run gdbserver alone with the program cause the program's new thread 
> died, I suspect it affects gdbserver to segfault too.
> 
> I'll get the pthread symbol to look further.
> 
> One last question. Does the host suppose to load exactly the same 
> library as the target? I see the host loads libthread.so.1, but the 
> target's core has libthread_db.so.1.

The host should load a copy of libpthread.so.1 which matches the copy
loaded by the target application (NOT gdbserver, gdbserver will load
libthread_db.so.1).

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer