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Re: GDB support for thread-local storage

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
To: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
Cc: Jim Blandy <jimb at redhat dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 21:48:21 -0400
Subject: Re: GDB support for thread-local storage
References: <20020619160004.38A625EA11@zwingli.cygnus.com> <3D1282DD.7000508@cygnus.com>

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:35:25PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> However, in the case of the above, is the architecture method needed? 
> Given that th only thing implementing this will be the above GNU/Linux 
> thread-db library, and GDB's linux thread code will know to call that 
> directly.
> 
> BTW, what happens if the target doesn't have execution (i.e. a corefile).

We fall down, just like we do debugging thread_db capable corefiles,
I'd imagine.  Thread_db does not like read-only targets very much.

> Andrew
> 
> (Use thread_local_static rather than thr_tls in function names)

_storage, I think?

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer

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