Re: Linuxthreads patch for gdb 5.0?

[Mark Kettenis <kettenis at wins dot uva dot nl>]

   Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 10:47:07 -0700
   From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@valinux.com>

   What happened to my patch:

   http://sourceware.cygnus.com/ml/gdb-patches/2000-q1/msg00567.html

   Without it, I got 35 threads failures under Linux/ia32 with
   "make check". With my patch, I got 0 threads failures.

I think there was still some hope that the lin-thread.c code could be
fixed before the 5.0 release.

The reason for the failures you're seeing is *not* related to problems
in the lin-thread.c code per se, but the fact that glibc 2.1.3 for
Linux/ia32 was released with the wrong typedef for prfpregset_t in
<sys/procfs.h> (and this still isn't fixed).  I think the fact that
things are so horribly broken on the most important platform using the
lin-thread.c code is enough justification for adding your patch.

You didn't address my concerns about the unused LIN_THREADS_CFLAGS
variable though.  Could you please remove it and resubmit your patch?

Mark