From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu>
Cc: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>,
Hui Zhu <teawater@gmail.com>,
gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Disable -lmcheck when Python has threads (Re: [BUG] gdb crash when "python import gtk")
Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2012 19:30:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87txvbj6fv.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2E2CF815-7C3F-40D1-A8FB-CEB190731F20@cs.umd.edu> (Khoo Yit Phang's message of "Thu, 30 Aug 2012 12:11:01 -0400")
>>>>> "Yit" == Khoo Yit Phang <khooyp@cs.umd.edu> writes:
Yit> Here's the corresponding bug report for glibc stating that it is by
Yit> design: http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=9939
I asked the local glibc hackers to see if they can fix it.
It seems to me that, while the existing malloc hooks are inherently
broken for multi-threading in the "wrapper" case, there is no deep
reason that mcheck has to use these hooks.
Tom
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-06 19:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-07-19 5:26 [BUG] gdb crash when "python import gtk" Hui Zhu
2012-07-19 7:16 ` Hui Zhu
2012-07-19 7:21 ` Phil Muldoon
2012-07-19 7:40 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-07-19 7:54 ` Hui Zhu
[not found] ` <A681786A-58A1-41E6-8410-8EBD8330E6BE@cs.umd.edu>
2012-08-30 16:05 ` Disable -lmcheck when Python has threads (Re: [BUG] gdb crash when "python import gtk") Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-30 16:07 ` Jan Kratochvil
2012-08-30 16:09 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-08-30 16:11 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-08-30 16:41 ` Khoo Yit Phang
2012-09-06 19:30 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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