From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: James Cownie <jcownie@etnus.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: GDB support for thread-local storage
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:56:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020625155555.GA18083@branoic.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <17MsdN-0Qe-00@etnus.com>
On Tue, Jun 25, 2002 at 04:53:37PM +0100, James Cownie wrote:
> > > So, ask the thread library folks to provide a suitable versioning
> > > symbol. As you rightly point out trying to guess the version is
> > > unlikely to succeed !
> >
> > Anything that requires changes to the library isn't really viable; too
> > many libraries already exist.
>
> But that seems like an argument for packing up and going for a beer
> which could be applied to _any_ improvement in anything associated
> with libc :-)
>
> The exact same argument could have been employed against introducing
> libthread_db itself in the first place !
>
> Surely one has to move forwards.
>
> Adding a suitable version symbol can only help, it can't break
> anything. If it's there the debugger can use it. If not you can keep
> doing what you already do, and it seems you really need it even for
> the normal native cases.
You'll never get them to document interface changes in pthreads'
internal data structures. You're welcome to try if you like pain more
than I do. The only layer the glibc folks support for accessing this
data is thread_db.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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[not found] <1024952640.13693.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com>
2002-06-25 1:48 ` James Cownie
2002-06-25 8:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-25 8:31 ` James Cownie
2002-06-25 8:42 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-25 8:53 ` James Cownie
2002-06-25 8:56 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-06-25 9:11 ` James Cownie
2002-06-25 9:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-25 10:44 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-25 10:02 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-26 12:45 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-26 19:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-26 21:57 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-27 8:13 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-08-19 9:05 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-17 18:07 [maint] The GDB maintenance process Daniel Jacobowitz
[not found] ` <drow@mvista.com>
2003-02-17 18:58 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-10-10 15:30 ` Unambiguously specifying source locations Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-10 15:44 ` David Ayers
2003-10-10 15:46 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-10-11 2:21 ` Felix Lee
2003-02-17 21:01 ` [maint] The GDB maintenance process Elena Zannoni
2003-02-19 1:49 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-19 2:26 ` Joel Brobecker
2003-02-19 15:43 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 16:29 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-19 22:04 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 13:24 ` Daniel Berlin
2003-02-19 15:51 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 14:50 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 17:33 ` David Carlton
2003-02-19 17:57 ` Kevin Buettner
2003-02-19 18:56 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 20:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-02-19 23:17 ` Jason Molenda
2003-02-20 1:53 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-02-19 19:35 ` David Carlton
2003-02-20 18:32 ` Richard Earnshaw
2003-02-22 0:53 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 15:12 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 15:21 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-19 16:24 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 18:36 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-02-19 23:36 ` Jason Molenda
2003-02-19 23:52 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 23:59 ` Jason Molenda
2003-02-20 0:16 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-02-20 0:21 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-18 2:39 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-18 4:28 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 3:49 ` Jim Blandy
2003-02-19 16:14 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 16:31 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-02-19 2:24 ` Jim Blandy
2003-02-19 16:33 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 22:24 ` Jim Blandy
2003-02-19 22:39 ` Christopher Faylor
2003-02-19 22:53 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 23:53 ` Elena Zannoni
2003-02-20 1:27 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-20 2:48 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-21 23:43 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-21 23:57 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-02-19 6:05 ` David Carlton
2003-02-23 23:26 ` Mark Kettenis
2003-02-24 7:18 ` Andrew Cagney
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-06-19 9:00 GDB support for thread-local storage Jim Blandy
2002-06-19 10:08 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-06-19 12:20 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-19 13:12 ` Daniel Berlin
2002-06-19 13:40 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-20 18:35 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-20 18:48 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 10:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21 10:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 13:08 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 13:18 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 13:54 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 14:03 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 14:46 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21 14:55 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 15:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21 22:59 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-22 8:22 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-24 7:53 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 16:14 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 22:57 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-26 12:37 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 13:20 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 15:37 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 23:00 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-06-21 12:34 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 12:49 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 18:10 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 20:24 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21 21:09 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-22 8:31 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21 15:04 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21 15:41 ` Jim Blandy
2002-06-21 15:59 ` Andrew Cagney
2002-06-21 16:08 ` Jim Blandy
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