From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com>
Cc: palves@redhat.com, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [DOC] Mention what happens when the thread of a thread-specific breakpoint is gone.
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:14:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83txgwc38v.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <524F00E6.9010104@gmail.com>
> Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2013 18:54:46 +0100
> From: Pedro Alves <alves.ped@gmail.com>
> CC: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> >> +Thread-specific breakpoints are automatically deleted when
> >> +@value{GDBN} detects the corresponding thread is gone.
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > I'd say "thread exits" instead.
>
> That was on purpose. It's what GDB says too. That's because
> there are other ways for a thread to disappear other than
> a regular thread exit, such as "detach", "disconnect"
> or gdb losing the remote connection, etc. The thread hasn't
> really exited in those cases.
Then let's mention those other possibilities as well. "Is gone" is
too vague and too slang.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-04 18:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-04 15:01 Pedro Alves
2013-10-04 17:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-04 17:54 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-04 17:59 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-04 18:26 ` Pedro Alves
2013-10-04 19:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-10-07 11:03 ` Thread-specific breakpoints: say "no longer in the thread list" instead of "gone". (was: [PATCH] [DOC] Mention what happens when the thread of a thread-specific breakpoint is gone.) Pedro Alves
2013-10-07 11:14 ` [PATCH] [DOC] Mention what happens when the thread of a thread-specific breakpoint is gone Pedro Alves
2013-10-04 18:14 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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