From: Dan Kegel <dkegel@ixiacom.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: Lucy Zhang <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Thread signal information
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 12:11:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3D3F05C2.8050200@ixiacom.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020724185743.GA14821@nevyn.them.org>
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>Does one give up anything by doing a postmortem gdb session
>>rather than a live session?
>
> From a design perspective, in the corefiles we get each thread's
> registers from the kernel; in live debugging we use thread_db.
> Given Linux's one-process-one-thread model at present, this has no
> practical significance.
... but it might if/when people start using NGPT instead of LinuxThreads.
I suppose I should check to see what that project plans to do about core dumps.
> From a convenience perspective, as Andrew said, you lose inferior
> function calls. You can't modify memory. Etc.
Thanks!
- Dan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-07-24 19:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-07-24 8:58 Lucy Zhang
2002-07-24 9:04 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-24 9:47 ` Dan Kegel
2002-07-24 11:52 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-07-24 11:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-24 12:11 ` Dan Kegel [this message]
2002-07-25 8:57 ` Lucy Zhang
2002-07-25 9:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-07-25 18:28 ` how does GDB find the symbols? Lucy Zhang
2002-07-26 10:03 ` Jim Blandy
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