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Re: info threads

From: Jim Blandy <jimb at codesourcery dot com>
To: Michael Snyder <msnyder at specifix dot com>
Cc: Brian Budge <brian dot budge at gmail dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:10:13 -0800
Subject: Re: info threads
References: <5b7094580712021509s5521c61fhd2bcefcfa0369aab@mail.gmail.com> <20071202235626.GA10030@caradoc.them.org> <5b7094580712031329o7754410el60dc06e8b1af2078@mail.gmail.com> <1196738175.2501.223.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Michael Snyder <msnyder at specifix.com> writes:
> On Mon, 2007-12-03 at 13:29 -0800, Brian Budge wrote:
>> Thanks for the pointer.  This was on Gentoo Linux, and libpthread was
>> indeed stripped.  I recompiled glibc with FEATURES="nostrip", and
>> everything works great.
>
> You might let the Gentoo folks know that gdb thread debugging
> will not work if they ship that library stripped.

Just a thought: stripping doesn't remove the dynamic symbol table.
I think GDB reads both the dynamic and static ELF symbol tables.
If we could get the symbols libpthread_db needs into libpthread's
dynamic symbol table, would that prevent stripping from breaking
thread debugging?

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