Re: GDB support for thread-local storage

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-25T17:02:40Z

On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 12:18:34PM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >Adding a suitable version symbol can only help, it can't break
> >>anything. If it's there the debugger can use it. If not you can keep
> >>doing what you already do, and it seems you really need it even for
> >>the normal native cases.
> >
> >
> >You'll never get them to document interface changes in pthreads'
> >internal data structures. You're welcome to try if you like pain more
> >than I do. The only layer the glibc folks support for accessing this
> >data is thread_db.
>
> Does the current thread-db code at least sanity check version match
> internally?

I don't believe it has any mechanism for this, no.

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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