Re: RedHat Advanced Server 3 and thread debugging

[David Highley <dhighley at highley-recommended dot com>]

"Ajay Patel wrote:"
> 
> David,
> 
> GDB is broken for statically linked application.
> No body has bothered to fix this.

Has the platform/tool world silently decided not to support static builds?
Does the platform/tool world know all users needs? It must be silent by
the lack of documentation!

> Thanks
> Ajay
> 
> 
> > We have implemented and a large application that is built on many
> > different operating systems with platform native tools. For Linux we use
> > the RedHat Advanced Server 3 update 3 platform. Development has a lot of
> > problems debugging threaded applications on this platform.
> > 
> > We build our applications static. Today one of the developers rebuilt
> > an application using the apparently undocumented option -rdynamic and
> > found that he was able to get better trace back information. Then
> > dynamic link was done and he found that still more debugging
> > information was available. Another thing they noticed was instead of one
> > pid per thread there was just one pid. Which now leads us to wonder if
> > we have the same thread model in a static link and a dynamic link.
> > 
> > Can anyone shed some intelligent light on these observations. For a
> > concept that is so widely used it seems difficult to get very good
> > information on any platform.
> > 
> > 
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