[cdt-debug-dev] new thread kills eclipse

["Heyendal, Carl" <CHeyendal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My Linux based embedded C application was a single process with no threads and it ran fine within Eclipse using DSF-GDB. 

However I needed to create a new thread in my application running on my remote target that did a bit of work on the side, which I implemented. 

But now, whenever I launch the application in Eclipse, I can step through the main parent thread without any problem, until I get to the point where I create a new thread. At that point, once the new thread is created, everything stops working, and the only thread that's running gets suspended. I can't even examine the return code from the call to pthread_create()!

I tried setting a breakpoint in the new thread but it never makes it to the breakpoint, ending with the same result described above. 

This only happens whenever I create a thread and run the app using DSF-GDB in Eclipse. Other than that, the application runs fine stand-alone (without Eclipse) with the new thread.

Attached is a file containing a snapshot of the Eclipse debugger.

Seems to be something to do with a thread/debugger/eclipse interaction. (really narrows it down, huh? :-) 

What am I missing? I'd appreciate any help if you can. 

/carl h.

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