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Re: thread local storage (__thread) variables aren't working in gdb 6.5/6.6?
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:56:51PM -0700, John Bates wrote:
> On 6/19/07, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 01:22:04PM -0700, John Bates wrote:
> > > I can't find any confirmation of support or non-support of thread
> > > local storage on the web or in the gdb documentation. I already tried
> > > 6.6 and it was the same problem. The test below seems to confirm
> > > non-support on my fedora core 6 (kernel 2.6.18) x86 distribution with
> > > gdb 6.5. Please let me know if I am doing something wrong for
> > > debugging __thread global variables.
> >
> > So far, they are only supported if you are linked to libpthread. Jan
> > K. was working on this earlier.
>
> I tried linking the program with -lpthread, if that's what you meant,
> and the same problem is occuring. Or do you mean linking gdb with
> pthread somehow?
Normally that fixes it. It might be some different problem, sorry.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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