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> > Of course the glibc approach to thread debugging won't work with > > Solaris. Since the thread debug lib doesn't exist yet, I was > > assuming that when you were referring to 4.17.0.11, you meant the > > OSF version of thread debugging, which is not portable and makes > > many changes to code shared by all platforms. What thread debugging > > code is in 4.17.0.11? > > > Do you really mean that there is a portable way of debugging user-level > implementation of thread package ? If it is the case, then I don't > understand why you accept a hpux-thread.c file in the gdb sources and > not a linux-thread.c one (which I tried to develop without any processor > dependencies, so that it should work with any Linux, but of course not > with Solaris ;-). That is true. The thread debug in gdb 4.17.0.11 works on x86 and alpha. I don't have other Linux machines to test on. I think it should work with minimal changes. But I need either a Linux machine or someone who is familiar with low level stuff to test some small changes. > > Finally, what I deeply deplore is that it is not fair to give technical > reasons of not inserting linux-threads support in the upcoming gdb-4.18, > because I offered my time to the gdb team last summer to help them > introducing linux-threads in the reference tree, but never received any > answer except that inserting support for hpux-threads was the main > priority. Now, it is too late since I am very busy on other projects. > The only thing that I will do in the near future is to provide Linus > Torvalds with kernel patches of the small bugs I have discovered with > this development. There are some minor problems with your original thread patch which prevent gdb to compile at least on Solaris/x86. I have fixed them in gbd 4.17.0.11. I think I have an agreement with Jim to put your thread support in gdb 4.19. I will do my best to work with him to make it happen. > > Best regards, > -Eric (original developer of the linux-thread support in gdb-4.17) > P.S. Sorry for my bad English ... I didn't know your name and email address when I merged your thread patch into my gdb. I have fixed it in my gdb now. Sorry for that. BTW, thanks for your thread work. -- H.J. Lu (hjl@gnu.org)