Re: [patch] Watchpoints: support for thread <thread_num> parameters

Luis Machado
2007-08-20T14:28:34Z

On Fri, 2007-08-17 at 14:49 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:41:38PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Is this all that needs to be done to have thread-specific watchpoints?
> > Do they work after this patch as you want them to?
>
> In my opinion, not really. On some systems, you can tell the target
> layer which threads the watchpoint should be inserted for and spare
> yourself extra stops in "wrong" threads.

What do you have in mind regarding the whole feature? Will we head
towards a different solution?

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Luis Machado
Software Engineer
IBM Linux Technology Center
e-mail: luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com