Re: Thread Support for remote debugging

[Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 03:34:04PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > >
> > > On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:40:34PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > > > "Sarnath K - CTD, Chennai." wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >  I have been browsing the mail archives for
> > > > > knowing the current state of thread support
> > > > > while doing remote debugging using GDB.
> > > > >  Although a lot of discussions have happened,
> > > > > I am not able to find the current state of work
> > > > > in that area.
> > > >
> > > > By "knowing the current state of thread support",
> > > > do you mean finding out whether the remote target
> > > > supports thread debugging?
> > >
> > > No, he means "knowing whether GDB and GDB Server support doing remote
> > > debugging at all", as far as I can tell.
> >
> > Yeah, but gdb always supports doing remote thread debugging,
> > so the question comes down to whether gdbserver (ie. the
> > remote target, as I said) supports thread debugging.
> >
> > > We've covered this ground a couple times lately :)  Someone promised to
> > > contribute thread support and dropped off the face of the earth.  It's
> > > on my TODO list, but I don't anticipate getting to it any time soon.
> >
> > I trust you mean in gdbserver.  The support for remote threads
> > is already in gdb.
> 
> Yes, that's what I meant.  Sorry.

Didn't mean to be condescending or anything.  I'm just anxious to 
avoid duplication of effort.  Several people have already added 
thread support to the remote protocol, I'd hate to see it done again... 
;-)