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From: Kevin Buettner <kevinb@redhat.com>
To: "Martin M. Hunt" <hunt@redhat.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: linux, threads and auto-solib-add
Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2003 00:50:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1030130005010.ZM22518@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Martin M. Hunt" <hunt@redhat.com> "linux, threads and auto-solib-add" (Jan 29,  4:24pm)

On Jan 29,  4:24pm, Martin M. Hunt wrote:

> I am trying to answer a question about debugging threaded applications
> when auto-solib-add is off. You cannot debug pthreads programs without
> first loading the symbols for libpthread.  
> 
> Given that, does it make sense to modify solid_add to always read the
> symbols for libpthread, if it is in the library list?

I'm not in favor of this.

> Or is expected the user knows enough to always immediately do "shar
> libpthread" after starting debugging a threaded program?

IMO, when the user disables auto-solib-add, then the user is
responsible for "hand" loading the shared libraries needed for
debugging the program.

Kevin


  reply	other threads:[~2003-01-30  0:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-01-30  0:24 Martin M. Hunt
2003-01-30  0:50 ` Kevin Buettner [this message]
2003-01-30 10:20   ` Dan Mosedale
2003-01-30 18:13     ` Kevin Buettner
2003-01-30 21:31       ` Andrew Cagney

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