Re: [rfa/PROBLEMS] document threads/1650, thread internal error

[Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>]

> + 
> + *** Threads
> + 
> + threads/1650: manythreads.exp
> + 
> + A program which creates many threads which exit very quickly (hundreds
> + of thousands of threads in the test program) can cause gdb to generate
> + an internal error.  The internal error often looks like:
> + 
> +   lin-lwp.c:744: internal-error: stop_callback: Assertion `lp->status == 0' failed.
> +   A problem internal to GDB has been detected.
> +   further debugging may prove unreliable.
> +   Quit this debugging session? (y or n)
> + 
> + This has been observed on native i686-pc-linux-gnu with linuxthreads,
> + the old threading model.  With NPTL threads, this internal error has not
> + been observed.
> + 

I think it more clearly needs to convey the following information:

- that it is (to the best of our knowledge) GNU/Linux and LinuxThreads 
specific
So the opening sentence should mention both of those data points. 
Something like ``On a GNU/Linux system that uses linuxthreads, a program 
....''

- switching to NPTL highly recommended
So the closing paragraph should make this clearer.  Something like 
``This problem has not been observed on GNU/Linux systems that use NPTL 
(New Posix Threads Library[?]). People still using linuxthreads are 
strongly encouraged to migrate to NPTL''.

We should also mention that on GNU/Linux NPTL based systems a problem 
with GDB loosing track of threads was fixed.

Andrew