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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



  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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