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From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>
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To: "John S. Yates, Jr." <jyates@netezza.com>
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Subject: Re: info threads
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> I have been implementing support for "info threads"
> based on the stock 5.3 release.
> 
> For the qfThreadInfo message I return a list of the
> addresses of all TCBs (thread control blocks) known
> to our nucleus.  It turns out that some of these
> live below the 2GB boundary and some above.  Only
> those TCBs that do not appear to be negative are
> displayed.  Why is this?

GDB would be showing its UNIX roots. Something is likely assuming that 
any -ve is invalid.  Excatly what, I don't know.

Andrew