From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 32066 invoked by alias); 29 May 2002 01:05:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 32029 invoked from network); 29 May 2002 01:05:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (24.112.240.27) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 29 May 2002 01:05:44 -0000 Received: from cygnus.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 574DC3D24; Tue, 28 May 2002 18:43:49 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CF40825.2010205@cygnus.com> Date: Tue, 28 May 2002 18:05:00 -0000 From: Andrew Cagney User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; NetBSD macppc; en-US; rv:1.0rc2) Gecko/20020518 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Daniel Jacobowitz , Marius Groeger Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Daniel Junglas , Wolfgang Denk Subject: Re: Multi-Threaded Extensions for GdbServer References: <20020526023242.GA8626@branoic.them.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SW-Source: 2002-05/txt/msg00989.txt.bz2 > I notice that you added glibc specific code to remote.c and some > protocol extensions; that makes this unsuitable to just drop in. > I believe you needed the same extension that was added in a later > version of GDB for looking up symbols, so this isn't a big deal in any > case. FYI, the GLIBC maintainer is not willing to support anything other than the published [functional] libthread-db interfaces. While teaching GDB the internals of GLIBC might get things working short term, it won't work long term unless the GLIBC maintainer is willing to publish those internal details as part of a formal interface. enjoy, Andrew