Re: [RFA/doco] Document task-specific breakpoints

Tom Tromey
2009-03-27T16:04:12Z

>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Joel> "Running"
Joel> is another one of these states which just says that, from the
Joel> point of view of the program, that this task is not waiting
Joel> for an event, nor sleeping, nor waiting for a rendez-vous, etc.
Joel> It's simply executing some code.

Eli> But in fact, it isn't executing some code, it's stopped at a
Eli> breakpoint, isn't it? If it is executing code, what code is that?

It is displaying the state as the program sees it, not gdb's view of
the task.

Perhaps the documentation can explain why a stopped task might say
"running".

Tom