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Re: calling functions in gdb sometimes doesn't work
>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com> writes:
Daniel>
Daniel> On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 09:52:22AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >with gdb 5.2 (Solaris 5.8) sometimes calling a function,
>> >e.g. hello(){printf("hello\n");}, results in the following message:
>> >
>> >(gdb) p hello()
>> >
>> >The program being debugged stopped while in a function called from GDB.
>> >When the function (hello) is done executing, GDB will silently
>> >stop (instead of continuing to evaluate the expression containing
>> >the function call).
>> >
Daniel> In fact, it really doesn't work right. Jim discovered a few
Daniel> months ago that other threads will be resumed.
so do you wanna say that this is a known bug? Is it already fixed in 5.3
or in CVS? How stable is the CVS version in general?
Klaus
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