From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: threads and target-function-calls
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 16:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030108163242.GA9168@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3E1C4F29.2070003@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 11:17:45AM -0500, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >Hey folks,
> >
> >Did you know that (at least on x86 linux), if you have a multi-thread
> >program and you execute a target function call, all the threads get to
> >run? Doesn't that seem like a bad thing? Wouldn't we really rather
> >only run the thread that is executing the target function call?
>
> Ha! That's just the start. Doing nested inferior function calls on
> alternative threads scrables the dummy frame cache:
> http://sources.redhat.com/cgi-bin/gnatsweb.pl?cmd=view%20audit-trail&database=gdb&pr=468
Oh, lord. That's going to take some serious fixing.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-01-08 16:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-01-08 1:00 Michael Snyder
2003-01-08 1:08 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-08 2:49 ` Dan Mosedale
2003-01-08 3:27 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-09 0:48 ` Michael Snyder
2003-01-09 1:51 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2003-01-08 16:18 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-08 16:32 ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2003-01-09 0:47 ` Michael Snyder
2003-01-09 0:56 ` Michael Snyder
2003-01-09 1:05 ` Andrew Cagney
2003-01-15 19:39 ` Michael Snyder
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