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Re: Disabling lin-thread.c module
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:16:40 -0400 (EDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@delorie.com>
I suggest option 3, but I also suggest to activate that autoconf test
and the entire feature only if the package is configured with
--enable-thread-db. I think this is the right approach for an
experimental/dangerous feature which wasn't tested well enough.
Well, the alternative to the libthread_db assisted threads debugging
code isn't that much better tested. In both cases, the
threads-related tests in the testsuite are passed. I haven't seen any
evidence of people doing more thread-related testing with gdb
snapshots on Linux/i386.
Anyway, the --enable-thread-db option is completely orthogonal to the
autoconf test. I'd really like to see the libthread_db assisted code
being used, otherwise we'll never learn about problems with it.
Looks like Michael Snyder feels the same way. But if there are more
people who think disabling the code by default and adding
--enable-thread-db is a good idea, I'll be happy to add it.
Mark