From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese@indel.ch>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Stack "signal handler called"
Date: Sun, 03 Oct 2004 18:44:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041003184230.GB10453@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20040930114255.01ce7bf0@NT_SERVER>
On Thu, Sep 30, 2004 at 11:45:46AM +0200, Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> Hi
>
> I tried to examine a target where a thread had crashed. I issued bt
> and got only one frame, somewhere in memcpy.c. For the second
> frame gdb only printed <signal handler called>. What does this mean?
> I found the string in stack.c but I couldn't make out the meaning.
> Does it mean that the call stack was destroyed? Some invalid
> addresses in the call stack?
It means that GDB thinks that a signal handler has been invoked, and
that the frames above it are in the signal handler context. If that's
incorrect, you've found a bug in GDB.
(You mentioned threads. It may be that the application is placing
thread stacks in such a way that GDB is confused...)
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-03 18:42 UTC|newest]
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2004-09-30 9:47 Fabian Cenedese
2004-10-03 18:44 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2004-10-04 13:12 ` Fabian Cenedese
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