Re: unable to debug remotely with threads on ppc target with gdb6.1/6.3

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 11:29:19AM -0500, Claudia Salzberg wrote:
> I sent this message out once already but it didnt get posted - suspecting 
> a mail format issue I made sure its in text format so it should work 
> now...sorry for the spam.
> 
> I have tried both gdb 6.1 the latest version (6.3) and am trying to debug 
> a simple threaded program using pthreads remotely.   The target board is a 
> 440GP and the host is an x86 box.  I see references to similar problems in 
> past posts from 12 2004 (
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2004-12/msg00028.html) but did not see if a 
> patch was created. 
> 
> This is my setup on the x86 side.  None of these steps have any ill 
> effects on either side:
> 1) target remote 192.168.1.2:1234
> 2) add-symbol-file theadfooppc

Don't do that.  Use the file command (before connecting), not
add-symbol-file; it does not do what you think it does.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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