Re: RFC: Initialize libthread_db at the right time

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> We've had some recurring problems debugging statically linked executables
> using libthread_db; this patch is the first of several fixes for that.
> This doesn't do much; it just splits the check out from the new_objfile
> hook, and calls it from target_post_attach and target_post_startup_inferior
> in the Linux native target.
> 
> Earlier versions of this patch used an observer instead, which was silly
> of me; we only want to do this when we're sitting on top of the Linux
> native target, not when we're on top of e.g. the remote target.  This
> mostly fixes the not-enabling-libthread_db-when-we-should-be class of
> problems; there's still one gross hack in remote.c which avoids
> calling the new objfile hook for remote targets, but that's a mess
> for another day.
> 
> Any comments?  Otherwise, I'll commit this in a few days.  It handles
> LinuxThreads, but NPTL needs a little push (coming up next).

I don't promise that I understand it completely,
but I don't see anything glaringly wrong with it.

Michael