Remote debugging of multithreaded programs using gdbserver

Daniel Jacobowitz drow@mvista.com
Mon Apr 22 23:45:00 GMT 2002


On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:12:12PM +0530, Subhashini Nagarajan Rao wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
>  As you stated I was able to reproduce it with the pthreads.c program and with backing 
> off of breakpoints the bogus SIGTRAP doesnt come. If you dont mind could you please
> tell me what 'SMP' stands for in your mail. 

SMP is Symmetric Multi-Processing.  If you aren't testing multithreaded
programs on a machine with more than one physical processor, you won't
see entire classes of bugs.

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer



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