[Boost-users] pthread_exit() from boost::thread segfaults ?

Subject: [Boost-users] pthread_exit() from boost::thread segfaults ?
From: Viatcheslav.Sysoltsev_at_[hidden]
Date: 2010-12-20 11:27:14

Hi people,

does anybody have an idea why the following simple programm segfaults:

#include <boost/thread.hpp>

void tf()
{
     pthread_exit(NULL);
}

int main()
{
     boost::thread t(tf);
     t.join();
     return  0;
}

> g++ test2.cpp -lboost_thread && gdb a.out
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Reading symbols from /home/vsysolts/test/boost_thread/a.out...done.
(gdb) r
Starting program: /home/vsysolts/test/boost_thread/a.out
[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled]
[New Thread 0x7ffff6cd5950 (LWP 21145)]

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
[Switching to Thread 0x7ffff6cd5950 (LWP 21145)]
0x00007ffff798a565 in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from  
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
(gdb) bt
#0  0x00007ffff798a565 in __gnu_cxx::__verbose_terminate_handler() () from  
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
#1  0x00007ffff7988a46 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
#2  0x00007ffff7988a73 in std::terminate() () from  
/usr/lib64/libstdc++.so.6
#3  0x00007ffff7bd898a in thread_proxy () from  
/usr/lib64/libboost_thread.so.1.36.0
#4  0x00007ffff6cdd070 in start_thread () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0
#5  0x00007ffff71ce11d in clone () from /lib64/libc.so.6
#6  0x0000000000000000 in ?? ()
(gdb)

I am using opensuse 11.1, x86_64 architecture, gcc 4.3.2, boost 1.36

-- Slava