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Subject: Re: "thread", "thread apply" and "step" ?
From: Michael Snyder <msnyder@specifix.com>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: Rich Wagner <richwagner@tilera.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
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On Tue, 2008-08-05 at 16:23 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 05, 2008 at 04:11:14PM -0400, Rich Wagner wrote:
> > I'm using "gdb --version":
> > 
> >             GNU gdb Red Hat Linux (6.3.0.0-1.132.EL4rh)
> 
> Could you try 6.8, or even better a CVS snapshot, and see if it still
> does this?  That release is several years old.
> 
> I think GDB does step the correct thread nowadays.

You do?

You mean, gdb actually changes the "runnable" state of the 
threads, and successfully tells the OS which thread to schedule?

Big news to me...