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Diffstat (limited to 'gdb/linux-thread-db.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | gdb/linux-thread-db.c | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/gdb/linux-thread-db.c b/gdb/linux-thread-db.c index 4e51c74..ce3f6a1 100644 --- a/gdb/linux-thread-db.c +++ b/gdb/linux-thread-db.c @@ -54,11 +54,12 @@ created, thread IDs (usually, the result of pthread_self), and thread-local variables. - The libthread_db interface originates on Solaris, where it is - both more powerful and more complicated. This implementation - only works for LinuxThreads and NPTL, the two glibc threading - libraries. It assumes that each thread is permanently assigned - to a single light-weight process (LWP). + The libthread_db interface originates on Solaris, where it is both + more powerful and more complicated. This implementation only works + for NPTL, the glibc threading library. It assumes that each thread + is permanently assigned to a single light-weight process (LWP). At + some point it also supported the older LinuxThreads library, but it + no longer does. libthread_db-specific information is stored in the "private" field of struct thread_info. When the field is NULL we do not yet have @@ -1717,10 +1718,9 @@ _initialize_thread_db (void) /* Defer loading of libthread_db.so until inferior is running. This allows gdb to load correct libthread_db for a given - executable -- there could be mutiple versions of glibc, - compiled with LinuxThreads or NPTL, and until there is - a running inferior, we can't tell which libthread_db is - the correct one to load. */ + executable -- there could be multiple versions of glibc, + and until there is a running inferior, we can't tell which + libthread_db is the correct one to load. */ libthread_db_search_path = xstrdup (LIBTHREAD_DB_SEARCH_PATH); |