On Wed, 12 May 1999, John Birrell wrote: > 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.
Ok, I'll see about updating my patch along these lines and I'll post up another one in a day or two. -- Doug Rabson Mail: d...@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message