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From: Lerele <lerele@champenstudios.com>
To: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [win32] Fix suspend count handling
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2007 22:13:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4749F37F.8090003@champenstudios.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071125220530.GA10356@ednor.casa.cgf.cx>

Christopher Faylor escribió:
> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 06:56:04PM +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
>   
>> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 03:44:31PM +0100, Lerele wrote:
>>>       
>>>> What do you think?
>>>>         
>>> There is some code in win32-nat.c which was a result of my uncertainty
>>> about the Windows debugging API.  I thought that since we have a couple
>>> more eyes on this now someone might know a bit more about how this
>>> works.  Understanding the foundations is never a bad idea.
>>> I'm not interested in gdbserver or what you think may be happening in
>>> the future.  If the SuspendThread/ResumeThread code can be eliminated
>>> from win32-nat.c along with all of the bookkeeping that is required to
>>> avoid races then it may be a good idea to do so.  Whether it is a good
>>> idea in light of future enhancements is a decision I can make but,
>>> personally, I rarely see a good reason to keep code complication around
>>> for the future unless someone is actually planning to do the work.
>>> We can stop talking about this now since it is apparent that no one
>>> actually knows the answer to my question.
>>>       
>> 100% Agreed.
>>
>> Just to let you know that I plan on looking at this.
>> I'm specifically wanting to look at what we're doing
>> when/if we need to step over something with all
>> threads but the current stopped -- if that is supposed to
>> happen, it looks like we're broken, we should be
>> suspending all the threads but the current before
>> resuming.
>>     
>
> I was going to try just temporarily doing this to see what happens:
>
> #define SuspendThread(hThread) 1
> #define ResumeThread(hThread) 1
>
> cgf
>
>   

I did remove SuspendThread from gdbserver, before my last reply.
Did have to remove SuspendThreadInterrupt support too.
Worked Ok.
I guess win32-nat.c should be similar.




  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-25 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-21  0:35 Pedro Alves
2007-11-21 11:25 ` Pierre Muller
2007-11-21 13:43   ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-21 14:13     ` Pierre Muller
2007-11-21 15:08       ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-21 15:32         ` Pierre Muller
2007-11-21 18:19         ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-21 23:33           ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-22  9:19             ` Pierre Muller
2007-11-23  1:07             ` Christopher Faylor
2007-11-23 10:19               ` Lerele
2007-11-23 18:30                 ` Lerele
2007-11-24 12:43                   ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-24 14:21                     ` Lerele
2007-11-24  5:33                 ` Christopher Faylor
2007-11-24 14:18                   ` Lerele
2007-11-24 15:49                     ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-24 17:50                       ` Lerele
2007-11-24 20:49                         ` Christopher Faylor
2007-11-24 20:48                     ` Christopher Faylor
2007-11-25 14:44                       ` Lerele
2007-11-25 18:13                         ` Christopher Faylor
2007-11-25 18:56                           ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-25 22:05                             ` Christopher Faylor
2007-11-25 22:13                               ` Lerele [this message]
2007-11-25 20:34                           ` Lerele
2007-11-24 12:16               ` Pedro Alves
2007-11-24 20:51                 ` Christopher Faylor

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