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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Josh Watt <jpewdev@gmail.com>
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: Thread Specific Breakpoints in Remote Targets
Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2011 17:23:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3mxdfjqsx.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAEPrYjTxvbCTp=rC1syxdYQ5xoy-BeovXtro-gnZNJrWz_C+SA@mail.gmail.com>	(Josh Watt's message of "Thu, 1 Sep 2011 10:33:48 -0500")

>>>>> "Josh" == Josh Watt <jpewdev@gmail.com> writes:

[ thread-specific breakpoints on the target ]

Josh> Unless I'm missing something, I don't believe this would be too
Josh> difficult to implement. Most of the code would live in remote.c and
Josh> would require a new packet for handling thread breakpoints.

I didn't see a response to this.

Josh> Would something like this be OK, or did you have something else in mind?
Josh> vThreadBreak;addr;kind;thread-id

Josh> The only other question I currently have is how should the thread id
Josh> be communicated to remote.c? Should the global inferior_ptid be used,
Josh> or would we add another member to the struct bp_target_info that
Josh> contains the thread ID?

I don't know the details of the remote protocol, but yes, something like
this would be good to have.  On the gdb side, I would say adding a field
to bp_target_info would be much better than a global.

Tom


  reply	other threads:[~2011-10-05 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-30 22:03 Josh Watt
2011-08-31 14:47 ` Tom Tromey
2011-08-31 18:09   ` Pedro Alves
2011-08-31 18:30     ` Josh Watt
2011-08-31 18:42       ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-01 15:34         ` Josh Watt
2011-10-05 17:23           ` Tom Tromey [this message]
2011-09-01 13:23     ` Raphael Zulliger
2011-09-01 21:35       ` Petr Hluzín
2011-09-01 23:57         ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-02  5:13         ` Raphael Zulliger
2011-09-03 16:00           ` Petr Hluzín

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