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From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
To: drow@false.org
Cc: eliz@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: debugging threaded apps. thread ID missing in corefile.
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2005 00:47:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200506120046.j5C0kaOW019775@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050607131022.GA30174@nevyn.them.org> (message from Daniel Jacobowitz on Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:10:22 -0400)

   Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2005 09:10:22 -0400
   From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>

   > > Not really.  The ID is a pointer above 0x80000000, used by the
   > > implementation.
   > 
   > Well, then perhaps we should display the thread ID in hex?

   Hmm.  I wouldn't object to this.  The number is opaque to the user
   code; for LinuxThreads it is an encoded index into an array (usually
   between 0 and 64k; the first few threads are numbered around 32k and
   16k).  That looks plausible in hex or in decimal.  For NPTL they are
   pointers and would look more plausible in hex.

The number isn't really opaque to the user.  The numbers have type
`pthread_t' and can be printed by the user when debugging his program.
It's the pthread_t type that is opaque.  Ideally we'd use the the
`pthread_t' type for the formatting of these values.  But AFAIC hex is
a good default.

Mark


  reply	other threads:[~2005-06-12  0:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-06-06 22:29 Program no longer exists [SOLVED] Alvin Beach
2005-06-06 22:42 ` debugging threaded apps. thread ID missing in corefile Manoj Iyer
2005-06-07  0:09   ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-06-07  3:46     ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-06-07 13:10       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-06-12  0:47         ` Mark Kettenis [this message]
2005-06-07  0:37 ` Program no longer exists [UNSOLVED] Alvin Beach
2005-06-07 18:45 ` Program no longer exists [SOLVED - 95% sure] Alvin Beach
2005-06-17 11:18   ` Program no longer exists [SOLVED - Completely] Alvin Beach

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