Re: calling functions in gdb sometimes doesn't work

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> Hi,
> 
> with gdb 5.2 (Solaris 5.8) sometimes calling a function,
> e.g. hello(){printf("hello\n");}, results in the following message:
> 
> (gdb) p hello()
> 
> The program being debugged stopped while in a function called from GDB.
> When the function (hello) is done executing, GDB will silently
> stop (instead of continuing to evaluate the expression containing
> the function call).
> 
> When I try to continue my program it appears as if this function didn't get
> call at all.
> Unfortunately this doesn't happen with simple example programs.
> The program I'm debugging is threaded (maybe this has something
> to do with it).

Check which thread has stopped.

I'm not sure that GDB's behavior, when trying to do an inferior function 
call on a threaded program is, er, very well defined :-(

> When I switch back to gdb 5.0, calling functions in the same program
> works just fine.

Now that's a worry.

> Does anybody have an idea what's causing this.


Andrew