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

[Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>]

On Sun, 1 May 2005 19:25:50 -0400
Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 25, 2005 at 09:34:29AM -0700, Kevin Buettner wrote:
> > 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.)
> 
> Hi Kevin,
> 
> Rereading my response, I'm not sure if this was clear: the patch is not
> OK without a change to use gdbserver's target vector.  If you won't
> have time to do this, let me know, and I'll try to find a chance to do
> it myself.

I don't have time for it at the moment, so if you have time for it, great.

Kevin