Re: DDD 3.3.10 on Solaris 5.8: keeps waiting until GDB gets ready, indefinitely ...

[Chris van Engelen]

On 01/06/05 13:03 Chris van Engelen wrote:<br>

> I using DDD with the following configuration:
>
> OS: SunOS sun044.aimsys.nl 5.8 Generic_108528-20 sun4u sparc
> DDD: 3.3.10 (sparc-sun-solaris8)
> GDB: 5.3
>
> I use DDD to debug a fairly large executable:
>
>    -rwxr-xr-x   1 sw       sw       42523191 Jan  6 12:11 mainctrl.exe
>
>
> After starting ddd with this file, the source window displays the main
> function, and when entering any command (even a return in the gdb command
> window), DDD hangs with the message: "...: waiting until GDB gets ready).
> CPU usage is continuous 100% when this happens.
>
> When I debug the same executable directly with GDB then all works fine:
>
>    gdb ./mainctrl.exe
>    GNU gdb 5.3
>    Copyright 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
>    GDB is free software, covered by the GNU General Public License, and you are
>    welcome to change it and/or distribute copies of it under certain conditions.
>    Type "show copying" to see the conditions.
>    There is absolutely no warranty for GDB.  Type "show warranty" for details.
>    This GDB was configured as "sparc-sun-solaris2.8"...
>    (gdb) list GscOutMsgT::send
>    82   //
>    83   // Description : A shell around RTsend() to realize message tracing.
>    84   //
>    85   void
>    86   GscOutMsgT::send() const
>    87   {
>    88   //    GSC_PRINTF(("\n- Sending <%s>(%02xh):"
>    89   //                   "\n    Dest address: %s",
>    90   //                   
> GSC_convSidValueToStringPtr(txMsgPtr->sy.ossgn.sid),
>    91   //                   txMsgPtr->sy.ossgn.sid,
>    (gdb) quit
>
>
> I have seen the message "waiting until GDB gets ready" also in previous DDD 
> versions,
> but this problem that DDD keeps hanging indefinitely with 100% CPU usage is new
> to version 3.3.10 of DDD.
>
> Please let me know if you need more info,

After building gdb version 6.3, I can confirm that the same problem exists for 
gdb 6.3 ...

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