[Buildroot] Can't debug threaded app on ARM920 (SIG32)

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-06-23, Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com> wrote:
> Le Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:19:14 +0000 (UTC),
> Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards at gmail.com> a ??crit :
>
>> > I'm trying to debug a threaded application using gdbserver on
>> > an ARM920T platform (Atmel AT91RM9200 eval board), and I'm not
>> > having much luck.  Whenver a new thread is started, I see a
>> > SIG32:
>> 
>> Gdb 6.8 is broken for ARM targets.  6.7.1 works fine.
>
> I was also having an issue with gdb 6.8 on ARM targets, with an error
> message saying ??register no longer active??. It is fixed by
> http://cvs.fedoraproject.org/viewvc/devel/gdb/gdb-6.8-bz436037-reg-no-longer-active.patch?revision=1.1
>
> Not sure it is your problem, though.

I don't think it is.  It sounds like sticking with 6.7.1 for a
while is advisable.

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