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Re: why is "gdb /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java" so broken?
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: "U. George" <gatgul at gatworks dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sourceware dot org
- Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 13:33:15 -0500
- Subject: Re: why is "gdb /home/gat/JAVA/JDK16/jdk1.6.0/bin/java" so broken?
- References: <43F76720.3050903@gatworks.com>
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.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery