Re: Thread Support for remote debugging

[Quality Quorum <qqi at theworld dot com>]

On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, 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.
>
> 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.
> Etc.

If you are talking about me, I had it done more than one year ago:
http://world.std.com/~qqi, see section about gdb.

The problem is that (1) redhat never said 'yes we want it' so it is
sitll based on 4.18, (2) there are a few issues which could be
resolved one way or anotehr an readhat never said 'we want it this way'.

> Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University

Thanks,

Aleksey