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Re: [RFC] Add windows Thread Information Block
- From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
- To: Pierre Muller <muller at ics dot u-strasbg dot fr>
- Cc: gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 10:03:41 +0300
- Subject: Re: [RFC] Add windows Thread Information Block
- References: <000901c9f5ef$4ee06f10$eca14d30$@u-strasbg.fr>
- Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>
> From: "Pierre Muller" <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
> Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:47:31 +0200
>
> The current patch adds the code to windows-nat.c
> despite the fact that I added the thread_local_base field
> to both windows-nat.c and gdbserver/win32-low.c.
> To be also usable for a remote gdbserver,
> I would need to move that to windows-tdep.c
>
> But here I need advice on how to move the display_tib function
> to windows-tdep.c file, as it is currently using internal information
> of windows-nat.c thread_info struct.
> Also how should I handle the remote case?
> Should I add a new query, something like 'qTlb'?
> How should I call this from windows-tdep code?
>
> All comments welcomed!
If this patch is accepted, we will need a corresponding patch for the
manual, describing the new command "tib". (Btw, how about a more
descriptive name?)
Thanks.