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From: "John Bates" <johnnybates@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: thread local storage (__thread) variables aren't working in gdb 6.5/6.6?
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On 6/19/07, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:22:04PM -0700, John Bates wrote:
> > 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.
>
> So far, they are only supported if you are linked to libpthread.  Jan
> K. was working on this earlier.

I tried linking the program with -lpthread, if that's what you meant,
and the same problem is occuring. Or do you mean linking gdb with
pthread somehow?

Thanks,
John