From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15051 invoked by alias); 1 May 2009 15:49:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 15044 invoked by uid 22791); 1 May 2009 15:49:17 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-1.8 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_MSGID_LONG40,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from smtp-out.google.com (HELO smtp-out.google.com) (216.239.45.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Fri, 01 May 2009 15:49:13 +0000 Received: from spaceape13.eur.corp.google.com (spaceape13.eur.corp.google.com [172.28.16.147]) by smtp-out.google.com with ESMTP id n41Fn9D8030021 for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 08:49:10 -0700 Received: from qyk15 (qyk15.prod.google.com [10.241.83.143]) by spaceape13.eur.corp.google.com with ESMTP id n41Fmu1T021655 for ; Fri, 1 May 2009 08:49:08 -0700 Received: by qyk15 with SMTP id 15so4909592qyk.8 for ; Fri, 01 May 2009 08:49:07 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.229.97.202 with SMTP id m10mr2174675qcn.77.1241192947300; Fri, 01 May 2009 08:49:07 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <83eiv9e1bb.fsf@gnu.org> References: <8ac60eac0904201019g7ba8056bx5e84e6bfdf5935d8@mail.gmail.com> <8ac60eac0904230001w1afd9179wcb76e1cfd7f3f386@mail.gmail.com> <8ac60eac0904291330m78b43c47p1cc9b8379e31e923@mail.gmail.com> <20090430185551.GB10734@adacore.com> <8ac60eac0904301211x245c8b7cp546042d832eb1fe@mail.gmail.com> <8ac60eac0904301618j61051e9du38b34afbc7ed64a3@mail.gmail.com> <83eiv9e1bb.fsf@gnu.org> Date: Fri, 01 May 2009 15:49:00 -0000 Message-ID: <8ac60eac0905010849m7dc29bb5h171a703fa79d8b76@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [patch][rfc] Allow GDB to search for the right libthread_db.so.1 From: Paul Pluzhnikov To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, teawater@gmail.com, tromey@redhat.com, bauerman@br.ibm.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-System-Of-Record: true X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-05/txt/msg00025.txt.bz2 On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 12:20 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > Is thread debugging indeed completely impossible without libthread_db? Pretty much: GDB will not know about any threads other than the one that is stopped or crashed; with LinuxThreads GDB will stop with SIG32 all the time in unexpected places, etc. etc. Debugging experience for anyone but libpthread implementer will be quite miserable. > If not, perhaps this warning (and the corresponding description in the > manual) should be amended somehow. Given above, I don't believe that's warranted. Thanks, -- Paul Pluzhnikov