Re: How to catch GDB crash

[Dmitry Smirnov <divis1969@mail.ru>]

-----Original Message-----
From: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>
To: gdb@sourceware.org,  Dmitry Smirnov <divis1969@mail.ru>
Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2008 15:28:57 +0100
Subject: Re: How to catch GDB crash


> I think you said earlier that when you switched to the other eclipse you
> had around that got over the "^running" problem, you weren't even able
> to inspect the stack or do any disassembling --  eclipse would get
> stuck on the "info threads" command.  I take it that since you
> report you can now retrieve variables etc, that the "info threads"
> issue is fixed?  I'll post this patch for review at gdb-patches@.

Perhaps, "info threads" is fixed. But since both "info threads" and "running" problems were [most probably] caused by the "main thread registering" fix, maybe it is better to investigate "^running" problem before submission? What if they are connected? ;-)

I have to say, that my goal is not just report issues, I would like to help fixing them. Unfortunately, I do not have much time to learn GDB, so I'm just asking for hints: what can I do to discover the root cause. For example, who is responding "^running"? What functions/files should I debug to figure out the problem?

Dmitry