Debugging threaded code on Linux

[Keith Seitz]

On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 03:58, Evan Lavelle wrote:
> I'm having various problems debugging threaded code on Linux 2.4.7-10/RH 
> 7.2, with insight 5.3. ddd seems to be more stable, but I think it's 
> using an earlier version of gdb (5.0). The problems include fairly 
> frequent crashes, 'thread apply' not working well, and so on.
> 
> Does anyone have any experience of insight and LinuxThreads, and how 
> stable it is? Should I be expecting this?

Make certain that the problems are in Insight. As far as I know, it is
very unlikely for the GUI part (Insight) to crash. More often than not,
it is the backend (gdb). Try debugging your program using command-line
gdb 5.3. (I think you can use "insight -nw" or "gdb -nw".)

Threads should work. Can you post a backtrace of the crash?

Keith