Is the current gdb 5.1 broken for Linuxthreads?

H . J . Lu hjl@lucon.org
Wed Sep 19 08:43:00 GMT 2001


On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 10:43:45AM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2001 13:55:55 -0700
> > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> > 
> > BTW, people may be very disappointed at the current Linuxthreads
> > support in gdb 5.1.
> 
> I wonder why was it necessary to make such a comment.  It doesn't add
> any technical information to what you already posted, but it might
> discourage people from working on fixing the problems.

That is the very first response I got for all my messages on this. Does
it tell anything? FYI, my users told me the new gdb was broken for them
and wanted to go back to the old one.

> 
> Can we please stay technical and deviod of any unfriendly attitude?
> Saying that such and such feature doesn't work is all people need to
> try to fix the problem.

I thought noone cared about it. Let's fix the bug.


H.J.



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