thread local storage (__thread) variables aren't working in gdb 6.5/6.6?

["John Bates" <johnnybates@gmail.com>]

I can't find any confirmation of support or non-support of thread
local storage on the web or in the gdb documentation. I already tried
6.6 and it was the same problem. The test below seems to confirm
non-support on my fedora core 6 (kernel 2.6.18) x86 distribution with
gdb 6.5. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong for
debugging __thread global variables.

Thanks,
John


--- begin main.cpp ---
__thread int tlstest = 5;

int main()
{
	tlstest = 4; // line 5
	return 0;
}

--- begin Makefile ---
CXXFLAGS += -g
main : main.o

jbates@localhost:~/samples/tls_test$ make
g++ -g   -c -o main.o main.cpp
cc   main.o   -o main
jbates@localhost:~/samples/tls_test$ gdb main
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This GDB was configured as "i386-redhat-linux-gnu"...Using host
libthread_db library "/lib/libthread_db.so.1".

(gdb) b main.cpp:5
Breakpoint 1 at 0x8048352: file main.cpp, line 5.
(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/jbates/samples/tls_test/main

Breakpoint 1, main () at main.cpp:5
5               tlstest = 4;
(gdb) p tlstest
Cannot access memory at address 0x0
(gdb)