From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 96570 invoked by alias); 19 Sep 2016 06:25:33 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org Received: (qmail 96549 invoked by uid 89); 19 Sep 2016 06:25:31 -0000 Authentication-Results: sourceware.org; auth=none X-Virus-Found: No X-Spam-SWARE-Status: No, score=-4.7 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,KAM_LAZY_DOMAIN_SECURITY,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW,RP_MATCHES_RCVD autolearn=ham version=3.3.2 spammy=H*RU:ASMTP, Hx-spam-relays-external:ASMTP, Hx-languages-length:475, H*Ad:D*ch X-HELO: ms9.webland.ch Received: from ms9.webland.ch (HELO ms9.webland.ch) (92.43.217.109) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.93/v0.84-503-g423c35a) with ESMTP; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 06:25:30 +0000 Received: from macserver.private ([77.56.24.81]) by ms9.webland.ch (Webland Mail Server v. 11.1.2.) with ASMTP id 01201609190825259023 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:25:25 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by macserver.private (Postfix) with ESMTP id 914E22AE27BD; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from macserver.private ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (macserver.private [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RP+3ZVvJw4hV; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:25:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.1.55] (unknown [192.168.1.55]) by macserver.private (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6D03B2AE27B6 for ; Mon, 19 Sep 2016 08:25:23 +0200 (CEST) To: "gdb@sourceware.org" From: Raphael Zulliger Subject: Non-stop mode for Windows (mingw) Message-ID: <45100db8-5b69-6a7a-e6cc-bad09e686f46@indel.ch> Date: Mon, 19 Sep 2016 06:25:00 -0000 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes X-SW-Source: 2016-09/txt/msg00054.txt.bz2 According to empirical tests and by looking at the GDB sources, 'windows-nat.c' and, therefore, GDB running on Windows (mingw) does not support non-stop debugging. - What's the technical reason behind this? Was it just not ported to that platform so far? Wasn't it done because it's tricky? - What would be needed to support it? (Is the main required thing that 'displaced single stepping' is required for non-stop mode?) Thanks! Raphael