Re: TLS on powerpc(32/64)

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-09-21T23:52:10Z

On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 04:20:47PM -0700, Prosun Niyogi wrote:
> Hi,
> I've been struggling the last few days on getting gdb
> to work correctly on a powerpc64 machine. Built as
> ppc-64-linux, debugging ppc64 binaries linked against
> libpthread. It seems to me that gdb's TLS access does
> not work correctly on these platforms. Attempting to
> print a variable of type __thread doesnt work.

It looks to me like GDB has failed to load libthread_db for some
reason. I don't know why not; you'll have to look into it.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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