Re: debugger support in NGPT only with glibc >= 2.2.4

On 10/18/2002 at 01:31:08 PM ZE2, "Dr. Uwe Girlich"
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> The thread_db (debugger support) part of NGPT is only usable with
> --with-mctx-mth=mcsc, or in simpler words the machine context method must
be
> based on getcontext() & setcontext().
>
> These functions are available in glibc 2.2.4 and newer but not in glibc
2.2.2
> (RedHat 7.1) and older (I could not find a machine with glibc 2.2.3
running).
>
> Are there any plans to expand this? Is it a trivial change I could do
too?
>

At this time there is no plan to support the earlier (< 2.2.4) versions of
glibc.  However, should you want to explore this, feel free ;-)  We're
gladly add it but don't have the actually bandwidth to do it right now.
Thanks.

Regards,
     Bill Abt
     Senior Software Engineer
     Next Generation POSIX Threading for Linux
     IBM Cambridge, MA, USA 02142
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