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Re: gdb doesn't show all threads, but gdbserver does


What about FAQ?

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 18:32, Norbert van Bolhuis
<nvbolhuis@aimvalley.nl> wrote:
>
> Paul Pluzhnikov wrote:
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
>>
>>> It's actually libthread_db that needs a non-global symbol from
>>> libpthread.
>>
>> IOW, it's a glibc feature :)
>>
>> Stripping libpthread appears to be a very common mistake:
>>
>> - we've seen it twice on this list in the last two weeks,
>> - I made it myself 4 weeks ago, even though I *knew* that libpthread
>>  must not be stripped.
>>
>> I wonder if we should warn glibc users? Something like:
>>
>>  Warning: your /lib64/libpthread.so.0 has been stripped.
>>  GDB will not see other threads, and multithreaded debugging will
>>  be unreliable.
>>  See http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/... for further info.
>>
>
> I consulted the GDB manual first, then google.
>
> http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki is an interesting source of information.
> I expect to see this common mistake being mentioned there, but I can't
> find it.
>
> Anyway, thanks to everybody for all answers.
>
>


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