From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 27565 invoked by alias); 18 Oct 2006 15:29:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 27557 invoked by uid 22791); 18 Oct 2006 15:29:44 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:29:36 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GaDML-0002my-Ao; Wed, 18 Oct 2006 11:29:33 -0400 Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:29:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jan Kratochvil , Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: RFC: Access TLS symbols without DWARF debuginfo Message-ID: <20061018152933.GA10436@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jan Kratochvil , Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sourceware.org References: <20061010032226.GF22848@nevyn.them.org> <20061017210311.GB12643@nevyn.them.org> <20060825021304.GA30225@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> <20060825134315.GA4994@nevyn.them.org> <20061010032226.GF22848@nevyn.them.org> <20061017210311.GB12643@nevyn.them.org> <20061017220313.GA809@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20061017220313.GA809@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-10/txt/msg00217.txt.bz2 On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 12:03:13AM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote: > Please note the TLS support is still not complete: > > * Support for GNU/Linux Thread Local Storage (TLS) no longer requires > symbolic debug information (e.g. DWARF-2). It requires the inferior process to > use threads (to be linked -lpthread). True - but this is NEWS, not a list of limitations, so I'm going to omit that. On Wed, Oct 18, 2006 at 06:27:45AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Shouldn't we mention thread-local variables explicitly, even if only > as an "e.g."? > > Otherwise, fine with me. Thanks. Good point. I've checked in this version. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery 2006-10-17 Daniel Jacobowitz * NEWS: Mention support for TLS without debugging information. Index: NEWS =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/src/gdb/NEWS,v retrieving revision 1.197 diff -u -p -r1.197 NEWS --- NEWS 16 Aug 2006 20:33:23 -0000 1.197 +++ NEWS 18 Oct 2006 15:28:34 -0000 @@ -14,6 +14,9 @@ supported. * The "set trust-readonly-sections" command works again. This command was broken in GDB 6.3, 6.4, and 6.5. +* Support for GNU/Linux Thread Local Storage (TLS, per-thread variables) no +longer requires symbolic debug information (e.g. DWARF-2). + * New commands set substitute-path