gdb how to get thread name displayed

Question

There are many threads created in my application. some of the threads name are visible in the gdb while i execute the command \'info threads\', others are not displayed. How

Answer 1

You can set the thread name via non-standard POSIX api calls. GDB (and other debuggers) will display these names.

On Linux

// watch out, 16 char limit on the name
pthread_setname_np(pthread_self(), "My thread name");

On Mac

pthread_setname_np("My thread name");