GDB and threads...

Trent Shipley plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
Fri, 27 Apr 2001 12:09:05 -0700


Hasn't the-company-formerly-known-as-Borland ported their compiler to Linux?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> [mailto:plug-discuss-admin@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us]On Behalf Of Kevin
> Buettner
> Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 2:17 PM
> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
> Subject: Re: GDB and threads...
> 
> 
> On Apr 26,  1:38pm, Jiva DeVoe wrote:
> 
> > does anyone know of a better debugger than gdb for debugging
> > multithreaded apps?
> 
> I don't know of any other options on Linux.
> 
> > Gdb's thread support is... ummm "interesting"
> 
> What problems are you seeing?
> 
> Also, have you tried the current development sources?  See
> http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/#download
> 
> > OR, does anyone know WHEN gdb's thread support will improve?
> 
> It is being worked on, off and on.  It really helps when we (the
> GDB team) have relatively small test cases to look at.
> 
> BTW, this discussion probably ought to be moved to
> gdb@sources.redhat.com.  I'm willing to continue discussing it here if
> you want, but you'll get the attention of other GDB developers if you
> ask your question on one of the GDB mailing lists.  (The Linux threads
> maintainer for GDB is usually pretty responsive if you supply him with
> specific test cases.)
> 
> Kevin
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