Re: [RFA] gdbserver: Add support for qGetTLSAddr packet

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 15:53:24 -0500
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:

> On Mon, Dec 06, 2004 at 03:20:02PM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> > The patch below adds qGetTLSAddr packet support to gdbserver.
> > 
> > I wrote this to demonstrate / test the support that I've added on the
> > GDB side.  I suspect some configury tweaking may be needed to test for
> > the existence of td_thr_tls_get_addr() in libthread_db.c.  (If it
> > doesn't exist, then get_thread_local_addr() should be ifdef'd to return
> > a 0 status.)
> > 
> > If it's otherwise okay, I'm willing to make the necessary configury
> > changes.  If it's not okay for some other reason, I'd like to address
> > that first...
> 
> This should go through the target vector, instead of adding #ifdefs.
> Then linux-low.c can handle whether thread-db is present or not.
> 
> Is this patch still current, or did the protocol evolve since the last
> posting?

The protocol did change, but the patch is still current.  (The protocol
change simply removed the extra load module related parameters that Linux
didn't use anyway.)

Kevin