Re: PATCH: Multithreaded debugging for gdbserver

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 06:38:33PM -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> I've promised this patch, at one time or another, to quite a few people.  I
> promised most of them specific dates, too.  My apologies to all of them;
> next time I won't give you a date :)
> 
> There's a few minor FIXMEs left; for instance, I use a wait/sleep loop
> instead of sigsuspend in the clever way that thread-db.c in GDB does.  But
> they are all fairly minor.  Five architectures are supported: PowerPC, MIPS,
> i386, SH, and ARM.  Others will come as time permits, or as volunteers step
> up; it's really quite easy.  Three functions, a constant, and one small
> variable is all it took for four of those five.
> 
> To use it, you need a copy of the target libraries with symbol information,
> in the appropriate filesystem layout.  Then you need to set
> solib-absolute-prefix appropriately.  Also, libthread_db now must be present
> on the target system and also at configure time for gdbserver.
> 
> BE SURE to use the right libraries, or something will almost assuredly
> segfault.  I'm working on making that less fragile.
> 
> Left out of this patch are the client parts which require protocol changes;
> namely async thread notification and accurate single-thread stepping.  The
> former was turned down in favor of a synchronous mechanism (which will
> require extensive GDB client changes, I believe, and be somewhat more
> brittle, but has its own advantages) and the latter received no serious
> comments.
> 
> Also left out are the tests, since they depend on the remote testing patches
> I posted four or so months ago.
> 
> I intend to commit this in two or three days unless something comes up with
> the patch (along with a suitable NEWS entry).  Longest changelog I ever
> wrote, I think - 150 lines at last count.

Committed.

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