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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, David Xu wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> >On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I'm sure the gdb(1) people are happy with our contribution :-)
> >>
> >>Seriously: We (=FreeBSD) provide 3 threading libraries (2 on ia64).
> >>It's our problem. I'm fine with you bootstrapping libthread_db with
> >>only the support for KSE, but eventually libthr needs to be added.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >I tend to agree.  From the outside looking in, it would seem
> >easy enough to allow all 3 thread libraries to be supported.
> >I think once we have it working with libpthread, we can move
> >stuff around inside the debug library and one more layer of
> >abstraction so libthr/libc_r support could be added.
> >  
> >
> I will make libkse work with gdb, but won't do such work, because I 
> won't have so
> much free time, I am busy at work due to job transfer.

I wouldn't worry right now too much about adding libthr support.
I can go in and add the extra layer of abstraction after you're
done getting it to work for libpthread.

-- 
Dan