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Compiling and Debugging

The Makefiles we will give you works only with the GNU version of make, called "gmake". You may want to put "alias make gmake" in your .cshrc file.

You should use gdb to debug your program rather than dbx. Dbx doesn't know how to decipher C++ names, so you will see function names like Run__9SchedulerP6Thread.

On the other hand, in GDB (but not DBX) when you do a stack backtrace when in a forked thread (in homework 1), after printing out the correct frames at the top of the stack, the debugger will sometimes go into a loop printing the lower-most frame (ThreadRoot), and you have to type control-C when it says "more?". If you understand assembly language and can fix this, please let me know.

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