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Re: debug of multithreaded program turns to be impossible during execution
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Avi Gozlan <avi at checkpoint dot com>, "gdb at sourceware dot org" <gdb at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 17:05:51 +0100
- Subject: Re: debug of multithreaded program turns to be impossible during execution
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On 08/14/2014 04:52 PM, Avi Gozlan wrote:
> GDB 7.8 yields a similar behavior:
>
> (gdb) c
> Continuing.
> ...
> [New Thread 0x43c05940 (LWP 3311)]
> [New Thread 0x44606940 (LWP 3312)]
> ...
> [Thread 0x44606940 (LWP 3312) exited]
> [Switching to Thread 0x43c05940 (LWP 3311)]
> Cannot remove breakpoints because program is no longer writable.
> Further execution is probably impossible.
> 0x00002aaaab98348f in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
> ptrace: No such process.
> (gdb) [Thread 0x46409940 (LWP 3315) exited]
> [Thread 0x45a08940 (LWP 3314) exited]
> [Thread 0x43c05940 (LWP 3311) exited]
> [Inferior 1 (process 3268) exited normally]
>
> The only difference is that in 7.8 case, GDB continues automatically after giving the ptrace message.
Any chance you could try your reproducer with a more recent
system? Mainly, I'm wondering whether kernel/glibc are at play here.
Also, a run with:
set debug infrun 1
set debug target 1
set debug lin-lwp 1
may help diagnose the issue.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves