Re: debugging threaded apps. thread ID missing in corefile.

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2005 20:09:44 -0400
> From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
> 
> On Mon, Jun 06, 2005 at 05:33:09PM -0500, Manoj Iyer wrote:
> > 
> > Regarding debugging threaded apps, gdb does not display the pthread id (ID
> > returned by pthread_self() ) when reading information from a corefile.
> 
> Yes.  You can find information about this decision in the list
> archives.  We need to use libthread_db.so.1 to retrieve thread IDs, and
> we do not have a graceful way to use it for only core dumps which
> belong to the native system (as opposed to sysrooted or cross core
> dumps).

If this situation is not going to be changed RSN, I suggest to say
this in the manual.  Any objections?

Btw, the node "Threads" in the manual sounds at least a little
outdated: e.g., it only mentions Solaris and HP-UX as platforms
capable of supporting multi-threaded debuggees.  Could someone in the
know please read that node and see if it needs to be updated in any
significant way?

> > Where as when debugging the program live it is able to display the pthread
> > id (I dont know why the ID is a negative number, could be a bug?).
> 
> Not really.  The ID is a pointer above 0x80000000, used by the
> implementation.

Well, then perhaps we should display the thread ID in hex?