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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Richard van der Hoff <richardv@mxtelecom.com>
Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Backtrace not working from within nanosleep
Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2007 16:58:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070306165840.GA6029@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <45ED99E9.8050404@mxtelecom.com>

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:42:17PM +0000, Richard van der Hoff wrote:
> The stack looks fine - it just looks like gdb can't unwind it. Any ideas
> what might be the problem here?
> 
> I have:
> 
> Linux kernel 2.4.26
> GNU gdb 6.6
> gcc (GCC) 3.3.4
> glibc-2.3.6

LinuxThreads, presumably, since this is 2.4.x.  That means it is
fairly likely that you do not have unwind tables for nanosleep, so GDB
is unable to reason its way out.

I believe this is fixed if you use glibc 2.5, but I'm not completely
sure of that.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-06 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-06 16:42 Richard van der Hoff
2007-03-06 16:58 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2007-03-06 17:10   ` Richard van der Hoff
2007-03-06 17:12     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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