gregset vs prgregset vs elf_gregset in thread_db

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Tue Jun 26 09:43:00 GMT 2001


> Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2001 22:15:37 -0700
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dmj+@andrew.cmu.edu>

> On Mon, Jun 25, 2001 at 10:25:48PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > I don't believe anything other than gdb uses these structures.  They
> > don't reflect anything that the kernel produces, do they?
> 
> That's right.  They're solely an interface for debuggers, and I do not
> know of any Linux debugger other than gdb which uses them, so I figure
> changing them to be more convenient to gdb would be a reasonable thing.

That's what I'd thought.  In that case, they can be changed in any way
that gdb finds convenient.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>



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