Re: Offtopic: threads

[Gustavo Joćo Alves Marques Carneiro <ee96090 fe up pt>]

On 21 Feb 2000, Colin Marquardt wrote:

> > compiled gdb (4.18) from source myself, but I almost didn't even find the
> > word 'thread' in it. How can I configure gdb for thread support? 
> 
> Seems that 4.18 doesn't support threads...
> 
> Look in the archive of the Debian-Devel-List under the Subject:
> "Debian's GDB still can't handle threads!", dated Oct 1999.
> 
> It was said that HJ Lu maintains 4.17 because of the missing features.

  In /usr/doc/gdb I found this in the changelog:

gdb (4.17-2.m68k.objc.threads.hwwp.fpu) unstable; urgency=low

  * Include patch to support debugging of multithreaded programs
    (Bug #23823)

  And in /usr/doc/gdb/applied-patches/ I found the patch against
gdb-4.17. One point in favor of Debian! :-)




> 
> HTH,
>   colin
> 
> 

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