Re: GDB support for thread-local storage

Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21T22:31:28Z

>> > I'd call the libthread_db
>> >approach broken for this purpose (a little outside its design scope
>> >perhaps).
>
>>
>> I think it reflects limitations of the current libthread-db interface
>> rather than a broken approach.
>
>
> I disagree... the concept of having a "libthread_db" with an interface
> involves it being a target library, part of the system. Unless you
> change its "interface" to be a data file rather than code, it requires
> access to a target in order to interpret target data. That's my whole
> objection to it.

Sorry, I'm lost here.

Say, instead of a libthread_db, we had gdb/libthread-db.c which could be
compiled on all systems. It would have some sort of procedural
interface, and would grub around in target data to find thread X lwp
maps. However, it could be written in a way that was host architecture
netural.

Andrew