Multi-Threaded Extensions for GdbServer

[Marius Groeger <mag at sysgo dot de>]

Hi all,

several people asked me to post this to the wider audience of gdb
developers. AFAIK there are several approaches for extending the
gdbserver to be able to debug remote programs that use threads. The
attached patch does this. The main advantage of it is that it doesn't
require libthread_db or symbol information on the target. We need
this for debugging of embedded targets with limited resources.
The main downside of the patch is that it's for some pretty ancient
5.0 snapshot (20010427). It also contains a small number of general
fixes which are not related to MT debugging.

Regards,
Marius

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