On Tue, Jul 12, 2011 at 06:16:14AM -0400, Jan Chludzinski wrote: >I went to GNU.org to read about GDB and threads since I'm having >trouble working with ptheads under GDB on Cygwin. I notice this on >the GNU.org web site: > >"Warning: These facilities are not yet available on every GDB >configuration where the operating system supports threads. If your GDB >does not support threads, these commands have no effect. For example, >a system without thread support shows no output from `info threads', >and always rejects the thread command, like this:" > >What the level of support for threads with GDB under Cygwin? > >Switching between threads causes seg-faults. Also, I thought that >while you're stepping through one thread, the other threads weren't >running? Shouldn't I be able to set a breakpoint in a thread before >pthread_create() is invoked? Doesn't appear to be the case?
Since cygwin1.dll is multithreaded, I routinely set breakpoints which are only hit in a thread. So, yes, gdb is supposed to be multi-thread aware. cgf -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
