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Re: multithreaded core files


On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 11:40:42AM -0800, David Carlton wrote:
> One of my coworkers is looking at a core file from a multithreaded
> program.  (x86 Linux.)  In this situation, GDB only prints a backtrace
> from the thread that actually seg faulted; he'd like to see what other
> threads were doing at the time.

It should already print all the backtraces.  If it doesn't, the usual
explanation is that you are using a broken kernel version which does
not save registers for every thread.  Many 2.4 kernels fit that
description.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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