RE: GDB doesn't display thread_id while debugging a core file

["Icarus Sparry" <isparry at Brocade dot COM>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Michael Snyder [mailto:msnyder@specifix.com]
> Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 6:24 PM
> To: Icarus Sparry
> Cc: gdb@sourceware.org
> Subject: Re: GDB doesn't display thread_id while debugging a core file
> 
> On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 18:01 -0700, Icarus Sparry wrote:
> > Last November there was some discussion on this topic, which ended
with
> > Daniel Jacobowitz saying in
> >
> > http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-08/msg00068.html
> >
> > 	If we assume that the host's libthread_db will either recognize
> > the
> > 	core file and do the right thing, or reject the core file, then
> > we can
> > 	write a small target layer that uses it on top of corelow.c in a
> > 	similar way to how linux-thread-db.c / proc-service.c use
> > linux-nat.c.
> >
> > 	It's just a matter of testing that on a couple of different
> > setups,
> > 	like LinuxThreads and cross debuggers, to see how it behaves.
> > Or
> > 	doesn't behave.
> >
> >
> > Being able to access variables declared with __thread in core files
> > would certainly be useful. Could someone give some reasonable guess
of
> > the amount of effort required to do this? In particular for a
powerpc32
> > corefile from a linux process with NPTL being debugged on an x86
linux
> > box.
> 
> Off hand, I would not expect the libthread_db library to
> be able to do anything useful with a corefile from a different
> architecture.

If I understand what Daniel was saying correctly, the libthread_db file
would be an x86 shared library, but it would be configured to handle
ppc32 elf core files, in the same way as the executable
powerpc-linux-gdb program that currently we have running on the x86
machines.