Bug#219459: NPTL breaks abort()
At Thu, 6 Nov 2003 13:14:04 -0500,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 05:39:23PM +0000, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Severity: important
> >
> > This may turn out to be a gdb bug, but let's start here...
>
> That just means GDB can't backtrace through abort. The compiler knows
> that abort is a noreturn function, and is allowed to take all sorts of
> liberties with the calling sequence - there's very little the debugger
> can do.
>
> You won't be able to get a backtrace at least until GDB and your kernel
> agree on how to dump the sysinfo DSO to a core dump and how to parse
> it. The code's still being worked on.
If so, how to handle this bug report? I think a core dump gotten
throught abort() should also be enable to attach with gdb. Is this
feature lack from gcc or gdb or nptl ?
Regards,
-- gotom
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