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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
To: Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tromey@adacore.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix watchpoints with multiple threads on Windows
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2021 14:15:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wnlyns10.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20211006204322.2175432-1-tromey@adacore.com> (Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches's message of "Wed, 6 Oct 2021 14:43:22 -0600")

>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Tromey via Gdb-patches <gdb-patches@sourceware.org> writes:

Tom> A recent internal change pointed out that watchpoints were not working
Tom> on Windows when the inferior was multi-threaded.  This happened
Tom> because the debug registers were only updated for certain threads --
Tom> in particular, those that were being resumed and that were not marked
Tom> as suspended.  In the case of single-stepping, the need to update the
Tom> debug registers in other threads could also be "forgotten".

Tom> This patch changes windows-nat.c to mark all threads needing a debug
Tom> register update.  This brings the code closer to what gdbserver does
Tom> (though, unfortunately, it still seems more complicated than needed).

I'm going to check this in now.

Tom

      reply	other threads:[~2021-10-27 20:15 UTC|newest]

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2021-10-06 20:43 Tom Tromey
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