Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 26 Mar 1997 09:52:32 -0500 | | From | Vance Huntley <> | | Subject | Re: Multi-threaded gdb? |
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E. Kevin Hall wrote: > > Hello all, excuse if this is _slightly_ off topic, but this is > definitely the place to ask it. > > I was speaking with an aquaintance who informed me that the linux > port of what might be considered a landmark commerical application > for linux is hanging on whether he can get the code ported from > win32s. This of course, requires a debugger(gdb) that can handle > threads. However, as far as he knows, no such beast exists though one > was supposedly "in the making". > > I have scowered the quite uninformative gnu.org site but found > nothing (literally). Does anyone have any knowledge about this? > Any leads? >
I discussed this with Xavier Leroy, the developer of LinuxThreads, some time back and was sad to discover that there is no such beast as a thread-safe gdb for linux. gdb does have thread support, but it doesn't seem to work with LinuxThreads. It is possible that gdb works with some of the other, non-clone() based threading packages; I have not investigated any of those.
I've managed to live without a debugger with extensive use of logging and assertions. Debuggers aren't of much help tracking down concurancy problems anyway.
Cheers-
Vance
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