Re: Inadvertently run inferior threads

[Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>]

On 03/12/2015 05:11 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> "pp" is in this case the command that invokes an inferior function,
> see src/.gdbinit in the Emacs sources for the details.

Here's a handy direct url:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/tree/src/.gdbinit

> Once this happens, the debugging session seems to be ruined: the only
> thing I can do is kill the inferior and quit the debugger.  Because
> there doesn't seem to be any way of stopping the threads again, not on
> Windows anyway.

The threads are probably stopped, and GDB managed to get out of
sync somehow.  Otherwise, "(gdb) interrupt" would probably work.

> Am I the only one who sees this annoying problem?  Does anyone know
> how to avoid it, or where to look for fixing it?

Never seen that, but then again I don't use Windows nowadays.

For run control bugs, logs are usually necessary to make sense of
things.  Try "set debug infrun 1" + the multiple Windows
specific "set debugfoo" commands.

Thanks,
Pedro Alves