Fwd: pthread in glibc 2.2.1

Fwd: pthread in glibc 2.2.1

[James McD]

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>From what I have seen the gdb bombs out on 90% of pthread programs as
well. This includes all platforms as far as I am aware. There is a fix
posted on bugzilla stating you need to recompile the gdb from the cvs tree 
and that should fix. However I have had mixed luck.
Hope that helps somewhat!

Sincerely,

James McDermott
>
>Hi,
>even the simplest pthread-program dies with a bus error(see attachment)
>on my I2.  glibc is 2.2.1(same for 2.1.97), kernel is 2.4.0-test9.
>Interesting enough I can't even get a core dump. Any starting points to
>track this down?
>Regards,
>  -- Guido

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#include <pthread.h>
#ifndef NULL
#define NULL (void*)0
#endif

static void *task(p)
	void *p;
{
	return (void *) (p == NULL);
}

int main(argc, argv)
	int argc;
	char **argv;
{
	pthread_t t;
	exit(pthread_create(&t, NULL, task, NULL));
}

Fwd: pthread in glibc 2.2.1

[James McD]

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>From what I have seen the gdb bombs out on 90% of pthread programs as
well. This includes all platforms as far as I am aware. There is a fix
posted on bugzilla stating you need to recompile the gdb from the cvs tree 
and that should fix. However I have had mixed luck.
Hope that helps somewhat!

Sincerely,

James McDermott
>
>Hi,
>even the simplest pthread-program dies with a bus error(see attachment)
>on my I2.  glibc is 2.2.1(same for 2.1.97), kernel is 2.4.0-test9.
>Interesting enough I can't even get a core dump. Any starting points to
>track this down?
>Regards,
>  -- Guido

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#include <pthread.h>
#ifndef NULL
#define NULL (void*)0
#endif

static void *task(p)
	void *p;
{
	return (void *) (p == NULL);
}

int main(argc, argv)
	int argc;
	char **argv;
{
	pthread_t t;
	exit(pthread_create(&t, NULL, task, NULL));
}

Fwd: pthread in glibc 2.2.1

[James McD]

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From what I have seen the gdb bombs out on 90% of pthread programs as
well. This includes all platforms as far as I am aware. There is a fix
posted on bugzilla stating you need to recompile the gdb from the cvs tree 
and that should fix. However I have had mixed luck.
Hope that helps somewhat!

Sincerely,

James McDermott
>
>Hi,
>even the simplest pthread-program dies with a bus error(see attachment)
>on my I2.  glibc is 2.2.1(same for 2.1.97), kernel is 2.4.0-test9.
>Interesting enough I can't even get a core dump. Any starting points to
>track this down?
>Regards,
>  -- Guido

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[-- Attachment #2: pthread_create.c --]
[-- Type: text/plain, Size: 241 bytes --]

#include <pthread.h>
#ifndef NULL
#define NULL (void*)0
#endif

static void *task(p)
	void *p;
{
	return (void *) (p == NULL);
}

int main(argc, argv)
	int argc;
	char **argv;
{
	pthread_t t;
	exit(pthread_create(&t, NULL, task, NULL));
}

Re: Fwd: pthread in glibc 2.2.1

[Ralf Baechle]

> >even the simplest pthread-program dies with a bus error(see attachment)
> >on my I2.  glibc is 2.2.1(same for 2.1.97), kernel is 2.4.0-test9.
> >Interesting enough I can't even get a core dump. Any starting points to
> >track this down?

Last I checked the kernel didn't dump core for multithreaded programs
since the core file's data structure doesn't support that yet.

  Ralf