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From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To: Simon Marchi <simon.marchi@polymtl.ca>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org,
	"Mark Kettenis (mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl)"
	<mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove support for using the bsd-uthread target on  FreeBSD.
Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2017 21:28:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1857183.rSnV2TeHRQ@ralph.baldwin.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <464e26c426c0486211bed1892a278f86@polymtl.ca>

On Tuesday, April 04, 2017 03:52:28 PM Simon Marchi wrote:
> On 2017-04-04 14:38, John Baldwin wrote:
> > The bsd-uthread target supports an old thread library ("libc_r") that
> > was last included in FreeBSD release 6.4 released in 2008.  However,
> > this library has not been used as the default library since FreeBSD
> > 5.0 (2003) and 4.11 (2005).  Thread support for modern FreeBSD binaries
> > is provided via "normal" LWP support in core files and the native
> > FreeBSD target.
> 
> 
> Thanks again!
> 
> By any chance, would you know the same information but for obsd and 
> nbsd?  If not I'll inquire on the relevant mailing lists.

The nbsd architectures in GDB don't use bsd-uthread, only obsd.

Looking at cvsweb for OpenBSD, it seems that OpenBSD switched the default
threading library from a uthread-style libc_r to a LWP-based librthreads
for its thread support in 2012:

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=132928856921225&w=2

This seems to have been released in OpenBSD 5.1?  I believe that the older
uthread-library last shipped in OpenBSD 5.0 in 2011.  Presumably Mark (cc'd)
can confirm?

-- 
John Baldwin


      reply	other threads:[~2017-04-04 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-04-04 18:43 John Baldwin
2017-04-04 19:52 ` Simon Marchi
2017-04-04 21:28   ` John Baldwin [this message]

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