Re: Thread Support for remote debugging

[Michael Snyder <msnyder at redhat dot com>]

Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Jan 31, 2002 at 12:40:34PM -0800, Michael Snyder wrote:
> > "Sarnath K - CTD, Chennai." wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >  I have been browsing the mail archives for
> > > knowing the current state of thread support
> > > while doing remote debugging using GDB.
> > >  Although a lot of discussions have happened,
> > > I am not able to find the current state of work
> > > in that area.
> >
> > By "knowing the current state of thread support",
> > do you mean finding out whether the remote target
> > supports thread debugging?
> 
> No, he means "knowing whether GDB and GDB Server support doing remote
> debugging at all", as far as I can tell.

Yeah, but gdb always supports doing remote thread debugging, 
so the question comes down to whether gdbserver (ie. the 
remote target, as I said) supports thread debugging.

> We've covered this ground a couple times lately :)  Someone promised to
> contribute thread support and dropped off the face of the earth.  It's
> on my TODO list, but I don't anticipate getting to it any time soon.

I trust you mean in gdbserver.  The support for remote threads
is already in gdb.