>Number:         23393
>Category:       toolchain
>Synopsis:       gdb does not work for threaded programs on sparc64
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    toolchain-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Nov 08 11:36:00 UTC 2003
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Martin Husemann
>Release:        NetBSD 1.6ZE
>Organization:
>Environment:
System: NetBSD sunny-weather.duskware.de 1.6ZE NetBSD 1.6ZE (SUNNY) #9: Thu Nov 6 18:16:40 CET 2003 martin@sunny-weather.duskware.de:/usr/src/sys/arch/sparc64/compile/SUNNY sparc64
Architecture: sparc64
Machine: sparc64
>Description:

Debugging threaded programs on sparc64 is impossible with the in-tree gdb 5.3.
It can't get at any register values (which is probably the root cause of it
all), doesn't properly map LWPs to threads and basically imedaitely crashes
with a bus error once you try to examine anything.

This used to work better before the new NetBSD thread support went in - while
it couldn't find the proper thread back then, it would at least show valid
register values.

>How-To-Repeat:
Try to run gdb on a pthreaded program.

>Fix:
n/a
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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