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From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Keeping breakpoints inserted
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2007 01:25:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1196385134.2501.144.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200711292224.23659.vladimir@codesourcery.com>

On Thu, 2007-11-29 at 22:24 +0300, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> One of the infrastructure bits necessary for the non-stop threads
> debugging is always-inserted-breakpoints mode. If GDB has stopped
> one thread, and other threads are running, we want those other threads
> to still hit breakpoints and watchpoints. However, current GDB removes
> all breakpoints from the target before giving user a prompt, and this
> has to change.
> 
> I've spend quite time examining breakpoint.c and infrun.c and 
> cleaning/localizing the decisions as to when breakpoints are 
> inserted/removed, and I believe I now have a fully workable plan 
> to make breakpoints always inserted. 

> [...]
> 
> Anybody has comments on this approach?

Might there be a user preference, under some circumstances, 
to NOT have them inserted while some threads run and some
are stopped?



  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-30  1:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-29 19:24 Vladimir Prus
2007-11-30  1:25 ` Michael Snyder [this message]
2007-11-30 10:11   ` Vladimir Prus
2007-11-30 21:03 ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-11-30 21:41   ` Michael Snyder
2007-12-01  0:08     ` Jim Blandy
2007-12-01  1:43       ` Michael Snyder
2007-12-01 17:52         ` Jim Blandy
2007-12-02 18:38           ` Thiago Jung Bauermann
2007-12-03 18:14             ` Jim Blandy
2007-11-30 23:53   ` Jim Blandy

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