Re: GDB doesn't display thread_id while debugging a core file

Michael Snyder
2008-04-15T01:24:55Z

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 18:01 -0700, Icarus Sparry wrote:
> Last November there was some discussion on this topic, which ended with
> Daniel Jacobowitz saying in
>
> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2007-08/msg00068.html
>
> If we assume that the host's libthread_db will either recognize
> the
> core file and do the right thing, or reject the core file, then
> we can
> write a small target layer that uses it on top of corelow.c in a
> similar way to how linux-thread-db.c / proc-service.c use
> linux-nat.c.
>
> It's just a matter of testing that on a couple of different
> setups,
> like LinuxThreads and cross debuggers, to see how it behaves.
> Or
> doesn't behave.
>
>
> Being able to access variables declared with __thread in core files
> would certainly be useful. Could someone give some reasonable guess of
> the amount of effort required to do this? In particular for a powerpc32
> corefile from a linux process with NPTL being debugged on an x86 linux
> box.

Off hand, I would not expect the libthread_db library to
be able to do anything useful with a corefile from a different
architecture.