How to have gdb exit if program succeeds, break if program crashes?

Question

I seem to have some kind of multithreading bug in my code that makes it crash once every 30 runs of its test suite. The test suite is non-interactive. I want to run my test

Answer 1

You can also trigger a backtrace when the program crashes and let gdb exit with the return code of the child process:

gdb -return-child-result -ex run -ex "thread apply all bt" -ex "quit" --args myProgram -myProgramArg