Bug#219459: NPTL breaks abort()

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Thu, 15 Jan 2004 23:23:53 -0500,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 01:22:10PM +0900, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> > 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 ?
> 
> GDB and the kernel, IIRC.  The most recent kernels probably do the
> right thing.  I need to recheck this and then I'll see about GDB
> patches.

Thanks!  So... should this bug reassign to gdb?

Regards,
-- gotom