Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 19:07:01 +1000 (EST) From: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> To: dfr@nlsystems.com (Doug Rabson) Cc: jb@cimlogic.com.au, current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Debugging uthreads Message-ID: <199905120907.TAA25926@cimlogic.com.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.05.9905120944480.385-100000@herring.nlsystems.com> from Doug Rabson at "May 12, 1999 9:48:43 am"
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Doug Rabson wrote: > That would work. I think I only need uniqueid, sig_saved, > saved_sigcontext, saved_jmpbuf, state and nxt. If those guys were lumped > up at the start of struct pthread (possibly in another struct so that gdb > doesn't need to know sizeof(struct pthread)) and marked appropriately then > the debugger interface would be quite stable. I'd be inclined to add the magic number too, because it gives a hint as to whether the structure refers to a valid thread. If the thread is destroyed, the magic number is trashed. I think it is worth adding a new header file defining such a structure. -- John Birrell - jb@cimlogic.com.au; jb@freebsd.org http://www.cimlogic.com.au/ CIMlogic Pty Ltd, GPO Box 117A, Melbourne Vic 3001, Australia +61 418 353 137 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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