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Re: RFC - add a debug hook to the unwinder
>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph S Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> writes:
Joseph> On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Tom Tromey wrote:
>> +__thread void *_Unwind_DebugCFA;
>> +__thread void *_Unwind_DebugHandler;
Joseph> I'd be concerned about what happens when the unwinder tries to
Joseph> access an __thread variable where GCC and binutils support TLS
Joseph> but the C library in use doesn't.
Jakub also expressed concern (on irc) about the use of __thread.
I will change this to use some other data structure. I think this
implies allocating memory -- due to non-stop I think we could possibly
be nexting multiple threads, possibly all of them, at the same time.
Tom