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From: Steve Freeland <caucasatron@yahoo.ca>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Cc: caucasatron@yahoo.ca
Subject: Watchpoints in multithreaded programs
Date: Sun, 01 Oct 2006 21:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061001212327.86189.qmail@web34208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> (raw)

Hello,

What is the status of gdb's support for watchpoint in multithreaded apps? 

The manual states here: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_6.html#SEC34 that "With the current watchpoint implementation, GDB
can only watch the value of an expression in a single thread."

However, there's a thread on gdb-patches here from 2004 that seems to indicate that this
limitation was in the process of being eliminated: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-12/msg00256.html

So... I'm a bit confused.  Is the manual out of date?  Did the "watchthreads" patch never make
it into mainline builds for some reason?

Thanks in advance,
- Steve






             reply	other threads:[~2006-10-01 21:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-01 21:23 Steve Freeland [this message]
2006-10-01 23:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-25 20:37 ` Jan Kratochvil
2006-10-03  3:53 Steve Freeland
2006-10-03  4:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz

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