Re: [Fwd: Insight freezes when trying to debug Mozilla]

[Fernando Nasser <fnasser at cygnus dot com>]

Brian,

This is what Mark is talking about.  Can you please try this 
patch and let us know if it worked?

Thanks

Fernando


Index: gdbtk/generic/gdbtk.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/gdbtk/generic/gdbtk.c,v
retrieving revision 1.6
diff -c -p -r1.6 gdbtk.c
*** gdbtk.c     2000/07/02 20:07:07     1.6
--- gdbtk.c     2000/10/05 15:32:31
*************** target_is_native (t)
*** 329,335 ****
  
    if (STREQ (name, "exec") || STREQ (name, "hpux-threads")
        || STREQ (name, "child") || STREQ (name, "procfs")
!       || STREQ (name, "solaris-threads") || STREQ (name, "linuxthreads"))
      return 1;
  
    return 0;
--- 329,336 ----
  
    if (STREQ (name, "exec") || STREQ (name, "hpux-threads")
        || STREQ (name, "child") || STREQ (name, "procfs")
!       || STREQ (name, "solaris-threads") || STREQ (name, "linuxthreads")
!       || STREQ (name, "multi-thread"))
      return 1;
  
    return 0;








Mark Kettenis wrote:
> 
>    Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2000 20:07:01 -0700
>    From: bstell@netscape.com (Brian Stell)
> 
>    I'm trying to debug Mozilla using Insight.
> 
>    When I run mozilla with the debug option the insight debugger comes
>    up and lets me start mozilla. I click the run button and it starts
>    and then does a break at main. When I press continue mozilla comes
>    up but insight never responds again (not screen refresh or button
>    response.
> 
>    It seems that gdb is sleeping in sigsuspend.
> 
>    It appears that gdbtk-hooks.c:693 the code
>        turns on a timer
>        waits for the timer or a child thread to signal
>        turn off the time
> 
> >From looking at the code it seems that this timer isn't actually set.  I
> changed the name of the new threads target, which means that it isn't
> recognized by gdbtk.c:target_is_native() anymore, and Insight thinks
> that it doesn't need the timer.  Try adding "multi-thread" to the list
> of native targets in gdbtk.c:target_is_native().  I'm pretty sure
> that'll work.
> 
> Mark

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