breakpoint in constructor ignored

[Claudio Jolowicz]

Hi,

when I set a breakpoint in the constructor of a class, gdb does not
interrupt the program execution. the program is multi-threaded, but
the threads are only started after the constructor returns. the
constructor is defined in a .cpp file (BTW why does gdb _sometimes_
reject breakpoints in an inline function in a header file?)

tia,

Claudio

compiler: gcc 3.2.2 (g++) on linux 2.4.24 using pthread library
debugger: gdb 5.3

Ps. I'm new to this ng and apologise if OT.