Does gdb work in Fedora?

[Andrew Burgess]

>Gdb has major problems in Redhat Linux.  In RH9 it is almost useless
>for threaded programs.  (It actually worked better in RH7.something.)
>Today it refused to give me a stack trace for a single threaded process
>waiting on a pthread mutex.

Does it complain about stack corruption?

>So... does gdb work well in the Fedora release?  In particular does
>it work with threaded programs (it does work on every other operating
>system I use)?  If so, I will install.

It works poorly on my threaded program. The gdb from cvs works the best
for me.

To work around some gdb bugs I often run the program then attach when
I'm about to generate an error. Otherwise gdb bugs prevent getting that far.

HTH