Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2008 14:53:51 -0400 From: "Dixit, Amol" <dixit@netapp.com> To: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: libpthread and gdbserver Message-ID: <488A213F.70105@netapp.com>
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Hi, I am attempting to port gdbserver to freebsd (initially only for x86 & libpthread) and I need some assistance with libpthread and libthread-db. (i) From the code looks like libpthread does not provide any 'thread creation event' symbol/address to be looked up by thread-db. I got around this by adding a dummy function call before _thread_create returned, and that new symbol can be used by thread-db to set thread-creation breakpoint (analogous to _thread_bp_create in libthr). (ii) Next hurdle is the race between thread-db and libpthread. Thread-db tries to access '_thread_list' which is maintained in libpthread and will eventually contain the 'initial thread' but this list is NULL when thread-db tries to access it early. There is a comment before _pthread_create() "It'd be nice to automatically have _libpthread_init called on program execution..." which will be helpful for thread-db. Currently I am stuck here as thread-db cannot enable threading early enough since libpthread is assigning 'initial thread' to '_thread_list' lazily. Am I on the right track on above issues? Any work going on in this area? Really appreciate any help on this project. Thanks, Amolhome | help
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