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Re: RFC: Access TLS symbols without DWARF debuginfo
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at false dot org>
- To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- Cc: jan dot kratochvil at redhat dot com, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:03:11 -0400
- Subject: Re: RFC: Access TLS symbols without DWARF debuginfo
- References: <20060825021304.GA30225@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20060825134315.GA4994@nevyn.them.org> <20061010032226.GF22848@nevyn.them.org> <ulknokdav.fsf@gnu.org>
On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 06:25:12AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 9 Oct 2006 23:22:26 -0400
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> >
> > Eli, this patch added support for printing thread local (__thread)
> > variables in files without debugging information, on platforms where we
> > could already do it with debugging information. I'm undecided on
> > whether that's NEWS-worthy. What do you think?
>
> I think we should mention it in NEWS.
Is this OK?
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
2006-10-17 Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
* NEWS: Mention support for TLS without debugging information.
Index: NEWS
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v
retrieving revision 1.197
diff -u -p -r1.197 NEWS
--- NEWS 16 Aug 2006 20:33:23 -0000 1.197
+++ NEWS 17 Oct 2006 21:00:23 -0000
@@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ supported.
* The "set trust-readonly-sections" command works again. This command was
broken in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5.
+* Support for GNU/Linux Thread Local Storage (TLS) no longer requires
+symbolic debug information (e.g. DWARF-2).
+
* New commands
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