From: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
To: Steve Freeland <caucasatron@yahoo.ca>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Watchpoints in multithreaded programs
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 20:37:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070425203629.GA30988@host0.dyn.jankratochvil.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061001212327.86189.qmail@web34208.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
Hi,
please check the patches
gdb-6.3-threaded-watchpoints-20041213.patch
gdb-6.3-threaded-watchpoints2-20050225.patch
in
http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/development/source/SRPMS/gdb-6.6-8.fc7.src.rpm
Going to check there some recent Linux kernels compatibility problems, though.
Regards,
Jan
On Sun, 01 Oct 2006 23:23:27 +0200, Steve Freeland wrote:
> 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 Is the manual out of date?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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-25 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-01 21:23 Steve Freeland
2006-10-01 23:24 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2007-04-25 20:37 ` Jan Kratochvil [this message]
2006-10-03 3:53 Steve Freeland
2006-10-03 4:07 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
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