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Re: why is "gdb /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java" so broken?


On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:27:44PM -0500, U. George wrote:
> After some 60min of running javasoft's java, the program finally dies of 
> a segfault. I have been trying, and apparently for several years now, 
> according to the gdb bug base, to get GDB to work with java & threads.
> Version 6.4 does not work any better.
> there is something wrong in libthread_db.so. I'm not yet willing to just 
> replace the libs, as this may affect the 'heap' bug that shows itself 
> randomly.
> 
> So whats goin on with gdb?

Probably the JDK does something funny with threads that bypasses
libthread_db.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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