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Re: Thread signal information
What are inferior function calls?
Lucy
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dan Kegel" <dkegel@ixiacom.com>
To: "Daniel Jacobowitz" <drow@mvista.com>
Cc: "Lucy Zhang" <lucyz@uclink4.berkeley.edu>; <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 24, 2002 12:53 PM
Subject: Re: Thread signal information
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >>Does one give up anything by doing a postmortem gdb session
> >>rather than a live session?
> >
> > From a design perspective, in the corefiles we get each thread's
> > registers from the kernel; in live debugging we use thread_db.
> > Given Linux's one-process-one-thread model at present, this has no
> > practical significance.
>
> ... but it might if/when people start using NGPT instead of LinuxThreads.
> I suppose I should check to see what that project plans to do about core
dumps.
>
> > From a convenience perspective, as Andrew said, you lose inferior
> > function calls. You can't modify memory. Etc.
>
> Thanks!
> - Dan
>
>