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Re: Patch to fix thread support for Solaris x86


> Peter's patch has a small problem (for which I am probably to blame,
> since it appears I suggested it): it conditionalizes the code on
> HAVE_I387_REGS, which according to the following comment in
> i386-tdep.c isn't right:

We got slightly tangled up on Peter's HAVE_I387_REGS patch versus
Peter's MERGEPID patch but that's minor, the point is that you are
catching all kinds of things like this, Mark, and that's why I'd love
to have you as a maintainer (speaking for myself; I guess Andrew is
working through the process so I don't want to prejudge what he ends
up with).

> I have absolutely no experience with embedded targets.  I have been
> hacking on GDB for Hurd/i386 and Linux/i386, and I do have an old i486
> with FreeBSD installed.

Sign that man up!  ('up for what' I leave as an exercise to the reader
:-)).

> I think I have a basic understanding of the most important multi-arch
> issues, but I would probably need some guidance if we ever go that
> route for x86.

Guidance should be doable.  One application for at least some amount
of multi-arch is so that a FreeBSD GDB can debug either a native
binary or a Linux binary.  I'm sure there are others.

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