Re: gdb doesn't show all threads, but gdbserver does

[Norbert van Bolhuis <nvbolhuis@aimvalley.nl>]

Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> 
>> It's actually libthread_db that needs a non-global symbol from
>> libpthread.
> 
> IOW, it's a glibc feature :)
> 
> Stripping libpthread appears to be a very common mistake:
> 
> - we've seen it twice on this list in the last two weeks,
> - I made it myself 4 weeks ago, even though I *knew* that libpthread
>   must not be stripped.
> 
> I wonder if we should warn glibc users? Something like:
> 
>   Warning: your /lib64/libpthread.so.0 has been stripped.
>   GDB will not see other threads, and multithreaded debugging will
>   be unreliable.
>   See http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/... for further info.
> 

I consulted the GDB manual first, then google.

http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki is an interesting source of information.
I expect to see this common mistake being mentioned there, but I can't
find it.

Anyway, thanks to everybody for all answers.