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

Are you not getting a core file when it crashes? Start gdb like this 'gdb -c core' and do a stack traceback.

More likely you will want to be using Valgrind.