[rfa/threads] Convert thread event descriptors to code addrs
Andrew Cagney
cagney@gnu.org
Wed Dec 3 04:09:00 GMT 2003
>> (remote_check_symbols?) Wouldn't that be equivalent to my original
>> patch (wrong side of libthread_db)? I suspect you want to add something
>> to gdbserver (or just wait for Roland's updated libthread_db).
>
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> Any remote client asking for a function address is going to want to put
> a breakpoint there, I would have guessed. Thus we should return the
> breakpointable address.
Suggest re-reading roland's comments. The contract is to convert a
symbol "foo" to its value. Not convert a symbol foo to a code address
by doing a descriptor re-direction.
> Hum, maybe there is some use in having the descriptor... let me think
> about it. This should go into the remote protocol doco one way or the
> other.
I think the protocol is pretty clear here.
Andrew
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