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Date:      Thu, 16 Sep 1999 09:43:08 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Cc:        jan@caustic.org, kip@lyris.com, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: does gdb on 3.3RC have thread support? (fwd)
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.10.9909160941160.440-100000@salmon.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199909152224.SAA04978@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Daniel Eischen wrote:

> > Thanks, I figured as much. I just thought I remember being told at one
> > point that gdb's thread support on FreeBSD had improved. Given a choice
> > between adding thread support to GDB myself and developing my application
> > on NT, which by the way has very good thread debugging support on MSVC6.0.
> > I think I would rather just spend a weekend adding support to GDB.
> 
> Search the mailing list archives.  Doug Rabson had already done most
> of the work to make FreeBSDs gdb thread-aware.  It hasn't been committed,
> but diffs were submitted to one of the mailing lists (probably -hackers
> or -current).

Unfortunately, I had to drop this for a while to fight fires in other
places. There is a small amount of work to do to make the gdb interface
more robust in the face of changes to the uthread structures but even
without that, my current set of patches seem to work fairly well.

--
Doug Rabson				Mail:  dfr@nlsystems.com
Nonlinear Systems Ltd.			Phone: +44 181 442 9037




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