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Re: gdb and linuxthreads (A deadlock in linuxthreads.)


> 
> Xavier Leroy <Xavier.Leroy@inria.fr> writes:
> 
> > Hmph.  That's interesting.  I'll try to think of a scenario that
> > explains this.  Sometimes, I fear the memory subsystem doesn't
> > implement strong ordering on memory accesses like it's supposed to do
> > according to the docs...
> 
> Xavier,
> 
> Your patch makes things much worse for me.  Now even ex2 and ex3 hand
> frequently.  With the code currently in the CVS archive I haven't seen
> any hangs (though I haven't run ex6 very often).  With your changes
> ex2, ex3, and ex6 hang almost always.
> 

There is a bug in the patch. A return is missing. Please read
my and Xavier's emails on it.


H.J.


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