From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4218 invoked by alias); 26 Aug 2010 19:13:39 -0000 Received: (qmail 4207 invoked by uid 22791); 26 Aug 2010 19:13:38 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.0 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,T_RP_MATCHES_RCVD X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:13:33 +0000 Received: (qmail 29026 invoked from network); 26 Aug 2010 19:13:31 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO orlando.localnet) (pedro@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 26 Aug 2010 19:13:31 -0000 From: Pedro Alves To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org, Eli Zaretskii Subject: [RFA/NEWS] Re: PR corefile/8210: Linux core files should use linux-thread-db.c Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 19:13:00 -0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.2 (Linux/2.6.33-29-realtime; KDE/4.4.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Thiago Jung Bauermann References: <201008142005.49256.pedro@codesourcery.com> <1282141768.19094.1.camel@hactar> <201008181540.23064.pedro@codesourcery.com> In-Reply-To: <201008181540.23064.pedro@codesourcery.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201008262013.28049.pedro@codesourcery.com> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-08/txt/msg00447.txt.bz2 On Wednesday 18 August 2010 15:40:22, Pedro Alves wrote: > On Wednesday 18 August 2010 15:29:28, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote: > > This is patch is great. IMHO it deserves a NEWS entry. :-) > > Eh eh, I knew that was comming. :-) I'll take care of that a > bit later. And here it is. Okay to apply? -- Pedro Alves 2010-08-26 Pedro Alves * NEWS: Mention libthread_db debugging with core files. --- gdb/NEWS | 23 +++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+) Index: src/gdb/NEWS =================================================================== --- src.orig/gdb/NEWS 2010-08-26 14:49:39.000000000 +0100 +++ src/gdb/NEWS 2010-08-26 20:12:52.000000000 +0100 @@ -37,6 +37,29 @@ expression. Such a watchpoint is never deleted due to it going out of scope. +* GDB now displays pthread_t ids and allows inspecting TLS variables + when debugging core dumps on GNU/Linux. + + GDB now activates thread debugging using the libthread_db library + when debugging GNU/Linux core dumps, similarly to when debugging + live processes. As a result, when debugging a core dump file, GDB + now able to display pthread_t ids of threads. For example, "info + threads" shows the same output as when debugging the process when it + was live. In earlier releases, you'd see something like this: + + (gdb) info threads + * 1 LWP 6780 0x00007f0f567be38d main () at main.c:10 + + While now you see this: + + (gdb) info threads + * 1 Thread 0x7f0f5712a700 (LWP 6780) main () at main.c:10 + + When debugging a core dump generated on a machine not the one used + to run GDB, you may need to point GDB at the correct libthread_db + library with the "set libthread-db-search-path". See the user + manual for more details on this command. + *** Changes in GDB 7.2 * Shared library support for remote targets by default