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authorMark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>2001-07-11 10:03:32 +0000
committerMark Kettenis <kettenis@gnu.org>2001-07-11 10:03:32 +0000
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* config/nm-linux.h: Fix comments.
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diff --git a/gdb/config/nm-linux.h b/gdb/config/nm-linux.h
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--- a/gdb/config/nm-linux.h
+++ b/gdb/config/nm-linux.h
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
/* Native support for GNU/Linux.
- Copyright 1999, 2000
+ Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001
Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of GDB.
@@ -19,32 +19,37 @@
Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
-/* Linux is svr4ish but not that much */
+/* Linux is SVR4-ish but its /proc file system isn't. */
#undef USE_PROC_FS
-/* Tell gdb that we can attach and detach other processes */
+/* Tell GDB that we can attach and detach other processes. */
#define ATTACH_DETACH
-/* We define this if link.h is available, because with ELF we use SVR4 style
- shared libraries. */
+/* We define this if link.h is available, because with ELF we use SVR4
+ style shared libraries. */
#ifdef HAVE_LINK_H
#define SVR4_SHARED_LIBS
-#include "solib.h" /* Support for shared libraries. */
+#include "solib.h" /* Support for shared libraries. */
#endif
+
-/* Support for the glibc linuxthreads package. */
+/* FIXME: kettenis/2001-07-11: Stuff on this page is obsolete, and
+ only used by the (unmaintained) sparc and m68k ports. */
+
+/* Support for the glibc LinuxThreads package. */
struct objfile;
-/* Hook to look at new objfiles (shared libraries) */
+/* Hook to look at new objfiles (shared libraries). */
extern void linuxthreads_new_objfile (struct objfile *objfile);
-/* Method to print a human-readable thread description */
+/* Method to print a human-readable thread description. */
extern char *linuxthreads_pid_to_str (ptid_t ptid);
extern int linuxthreads_prepare_to_proceed (int step);
#define PREPARE_TO_PROCEED(select_it) linuxthreads_prepare_to_proceed (1)
+
/* Defined to make stepping-over-breakpoints be thread-atomic. */
#define USE_THREAD_STEP_NEEDED 1