Re: [win32] Fix suspend count handling

[Lerele <lerele@champenstudios.com>]

Pedro Alves escribió:
> Lerele wrote:
>
>>
>> I'd also like to ask you a question, concerning a comment from Pedro 
>> several messages back that has stayed around in my mind since then.
>>
>> It's not related with this specific thread title, but since it's 
>> gdbserver/win32 related, I haven't found appropriate to open a new 
>> thread just for this simple question.
>>
>> The issue is near the end of:
>> http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2007-11/msg00041.html
>>
>> It's about the fact of gdb win32-nat.c some time ago having the 
>> interrupt functionality similar to the one that has been recently 
>> implemented using SuspendThread (versus using DebugBreak kind of 
>> functions). Pedro commented back then that win32-nat.c did have 
>> sometime in the past a similar implementation [that must have been 
>> dropped].
>> Do you know/remember if it was dropped for a specific reason?
>>
>
> Humm, I guess I mistaked win32-nat.c for the winpdo-nat.c
> files on Apple's gdb:
>
> See in:
> http://www.opensource.apple.com/darwinsource/tarballs/other/gdb-186.1.tar.gz 
>
>
> In src/gdb-next/winpdo-nat.c, you'll see a SuspendThreads mechanism.
> The file header states 1996 as the latest copyright year, but they
> may have easilly failed to update it.  I'm not sure if win32-nat
> ever had this mechanism, or if it was only added by Apple.  Our
> cvs history only goes back till 1999.
>
> I did say: "I *think* that if...".  :-)
>

Sorry, I misunderstood "you'll see that once a similar method was used." 
as being an assertion.
Anyway there seems to be a reason not to SuspendThread, whether there 
was or wasn't such implementation in the past.

Leo.