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> > On Mon, Mar 08, 1999 at 10:18:31AM +0100, Eric Paire wrote: > > Finally, what I deeply deplore is that it is not fair to give technical > > reasons of not inserting linux-threads support in the upcoming gdb-4.18, > > because I offered my time to the gdb team last summer to help them > > introducing linux-threads in the reference tree, but never received any > > answer except that inserting support for hpux-threads was the main > > priority. Now, it is too late since I am very busy on other projects. > > The only thing that I will do in the near future is to provide Linus > > Torvalds with kernel patches of the small bugs I have discovered with > > this development. > > The result is simply that the Linux distributions will effectively fork their > tree and use a gdb with your patches added. This already happened with RedHat - > they ship a gdb 4.17 rpm with your debugging patch added in 5.2. Threads > debugging is a critical enough thing that the other dists will probably > follow. This is unfortunate, but will happen. > That is very unfortunate indeed. That is why I bring it up again and again. The good news is Jim and I will work to merge all the Linux changes into gdb 4.19. The bad news they won't be in gdb 4.18. I don't think it is a big loss. I will make a Linux patch for gdb 4.18 when it is released. It shouldn't be very hard since I have tried to limit my changes in the Linux specific files as much as I can. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)