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| author | Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com> | 2004-07-28 19:53:39 +0000 |
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| committer | Andrew Cagney <cagney@redhat.com> | 2004-07-28 19:53:39 +0000 |
| commit | 537e1b88f8c33deec40bc9eaada8a41ee62478c3 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d9b5e5ef078fd323bcb8c4207305b57517a6cc9 /gdb/PROBLEMS | |
| parent | 21c206de3c74f451b3b76a865f6ae8215886aecf (diff) | |
| download | gdb-537e1b88f8c33deec40bc9eaada8a41ee62478c3.tar.gz | |
2004-07-28 Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
* PROBLEMS: Mention threads/1650.
* NEWS: Mention the NPTL fix.
Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/PROBLEMS')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/PROBLEMS | 18 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/PROBLEMS b/gdb/PROBLEMS index d166305722b..8cdfe324756 100644 --- a/gdb/PROBLEMS +++ b/gdb/PROBLEMS @@ -126,15 +126,9 @@ sensitive to the operating system and thread library. threads/1650: manythreads.exp -A program which creates many threads which exit very quickly (hundreds -of thousands of threads in the test program) can cause gdb to generate -an internal error. The internal error often looks like: - - lin-lwp.c:744: internal-error: stop_callback: Assertion `lp->status == 0' failed. - A problem internal to GDB has been detected. - further debugging may prove unreliable. - Quit this debugging session? (y or n) - -This has been observed on native i686-pc-linux-gnu with linuxthreads, -the old threading model. With NPTL threads, this internal error has not -been observed. +On GNU/Linux systems that use the old LinuxThreads thread library, a +program rapidly creating and deleting threads can confuse GDB leading +to an internal error. + +This problem does not occur on newer systems that use the NPTL +library, and did not occur with GDB 6.1. |