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Date:      Wed, 12 May 1999 09:28:00 +0100 (BST)
From:      Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com>
To:        John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Debugging uthreads
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905120925220.385-100000@herring.nlsystems.com>
In-Reply-To: <199905120827.SAA25753@cimlogic.com.au>

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On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote:

> Doug Rabson wrote:
> > I didn't want to use the address since it might cause confusion if a
> > thread was freed and then the memory was re-allocated to create a new
> > thread.
> 
> Good reason.
> 
> > I thought about the versioning but I don't think it will be a problem in
> > practice since both uthread and gdb will generally be built by a single
> > 'make world'.
> 
> But libc_r isn't linked into anything during a 'make world'. It is only
> linked to 3rd party applications. So, although libc_r and gdb are in
> sync at the end of a 'make world', any statically linked applications
> will be out-of-sync (if an internal change has been made to libc_r).
> I'm not sure there is an easy solution to this.

Other gdb thread debugging systems tend to export a set of variables from
the thread library which describe the important offsets in the thread
structure e.g. _debug_pthread_status_offset, _debug_pthread_foo_offset
etc.

If you think there will be a real problem, I could do this I guess.

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




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