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Re: [PATCH v2] Remove support for thread events without PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE in GDB.
- From: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- To: Antoine Tremblay <antoine dot tremblay at ericsson dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
- Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 15:35:12 +0000
- Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Remove support for thread events without PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE in GDB.
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- References: <1449760930-23203-1-git-send-email-antoine dot tremblay at ericsson dot com>
On 12/10/2015 03:22 PM, Antoine Tremblay wrote:
> Before, on systems that did not support PTRACE_EVENT_CLONE, both GDB and
> GDBServer coordinated with libthread_db.so to insert breakpoints at magic
> locations in libpthread.so, in order to break at thread creation and
> thread death.
>
> Support for thread events was removed from GDBServer as patch:
> https://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2015-11/msg00466.html
>
> This patch removes support for thread events in GDB.
>
> No regressions found on Ubuntu 14.04 x86_64.
>
LGTM.
Thanks,
Pedro Alves