[lug] gdb & pthreads

[Rich Deeming]

When the program seg faults are you generating a core file?
If so $gdb progname -c core should give you the location of
where the fault occurs.

Rich

Kevin King wrote:

> I have created and am testing a multithreaded program which seg
> faults under load.  I'm trying to trace the fault using gdb, but gdb
> stops when the first subordinate thread terminates.  The main thread
> continues running (though it is effectively a zombie) and needs to be
> killed manually.
>
> This gdb was specifically downloaded from the Caldera site because it
> has pthreads support, but if I can't trace into the threads -- or at
> least keep the debugger running after the first thread terminates,
> it's not of much use.  Does anyone happen to have any advice or ideas
> of options or something w/ gdb which will allow me to use it to trace
> this fault?  Or perhaps some other tool?  Or is there perhaps a
> compiler option to enable extended information on a fault?
>
> Thanks!
>
> --Kevin
> kevin at precisonline.com
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