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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
To: Icarus Sparry <isparry@Brocade.COM>
Cc: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB doesn't display thread_id while debugging a core file
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 23:48:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080415202030.GA12484@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <A38255E470424448A800D890BC7345FE02312E97@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com>

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 01:16:41PM -0700, Icarus Sparry wrote:
> The program I am interested in at the moment only has a single __thread
> variable, which is used to index many arrays. I have a number of
> choices, ranging from write a function in gdb to get the value of this
> particular variable, to fixing gdb so it can get the information
> correctly from the core for all thread local variables. The latter is
> going to be more work, but makes gdb a better debugger for everyone. 

We've talked about accessing __thread storage without passing through
libthread_db.  In my opinion, that is likely to be a better solution.
However, it's a bit tricky to figure out the module numbers assigned
by the C library in this case...

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 20:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15  3:05 Icarus Sparry
2008-04-15  3:10 ` Michael Snyder
2008-04-15  6:54   ` Icarus Sparry
2008-04-15  8:12     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-04-15 18:17       ` Michael Snyder
2008-04-15 20:46         ` Icarus Sparry
2008-04-15 23:48           ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2007-08-08 19:13 msnyder
2007-08-08 19:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-06 20:27 Carlos Eduardo Seo
2007-08-06 20:33 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-08-06 21:21   ` Carlos Eduardo Seo
2007-08-07 11:31     ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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