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Re: [RFA/commit] Add support for DEC threads on alpha-osf

From: Nathan Froyd <froydnj at codesourcery dot com>
To: Joel Brobecker <brobecker at adacore dot com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro at codesourcery dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 08:20:46 -0700
Subject: Re: [RFA/commit] Add support for DEC threads on alpha-osf
References: <20081007130322.GD28143@adacore.com> <200810071508.32985.pedro@codesourcery.com> <20081007150154.GI28138@adacore.com>

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 11:01:54AM -0400, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> > ... this is an M:N configuration?  It looks like it, because threads
> > 2,3,4 were added before the lwps 5,6,7, and the threads 2,3 show a
> > different frame from lwps 5,6.
> 
> I am strongly suspecting that it is indeed an M:N configuration,
> but I don't know that for sure.  The LWPs look like kernel threads
> (the pthreaddebug API mentions their existence).

Yes, OSF/1 uses an M:N configuration.  (From hard-won debugging
experience and http://members.aol.com/drbutenhof/ThreadTable.html.)

-Nathan

References:
- [RFA/commit] Add support for DEC threads on alpha-osf
  - From: Joel Brobecker
- Re: [RFA/commit] Add support for DEC threads on alpha-osf
  - From: Pedro Alves
- Re: [RFA/commit] Add support for DEC threads on alpha-osf
  - From: Joel Brobecker

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