From: Peter Waechtler <pwaechtler@mac.com>
To: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: debugging multi threaded applicatiosn on arm - status?
Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2011 09:55:15 +0000 (UTC) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <loom.20111009T115000-485@post.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 20110617153930.GA28570@merkur.ravnborg.org
Sam Ravnborg <sam <at> ravnborg.org> writes:
>
> >> Is it possible to bebug multi-threaded applications using gdb on ARM these
days?
> >>
> >
> > It works for me, using various ARM 926 and Cortex A8 chips and kernel
> > versions from 2.6.27 to the present day. Which version of gbd do you
> > have? gdb version 7.x works much better than 6.x in my experience.
>
> We are using 6.8 - which may be the culprint.
> Does it work with NPTL too?
>
Sam,
why don't you describe what's not working?
I guess you have a stripped libpthread and gdb isn't able to fetch
the thread infos via libthread_db.so.
On ARM you must not strip libpthread too much - see
http://sourceware.org/gdb/wiki/FAQ question 6
Peter
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-09 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-06-17 9:39 debugging multi threaded applicatiosn on arm - status? Sam Ravnborg
2011-06-17 12:46 ` Chris Simmonds
2011-06-17 15:39 ` Sam Ravnborg
2011-10-09 9:55 ` Peter Waechtler [this message]
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