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Re: [RFC 0/6] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads

From: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>
To: John Baldwin <jhb at FreeBSD dot org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom at tromey dot com>, gdb-patches at sourceware dot org
Date: Mon, 11 Mar 2019 16:40:47 -0600
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/6] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads
References: <20190309172300.2764-1-tom@tromey.com> <579bea0e-1efe-ae42-5d09-c5d53ba340a2@FreeBSD.org>

>>>>> "John" == John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:

Tom> I have some more ideas for areas in gdb that could benefit from
Tom> threads.  I'm happy to discuss if you're interested.

John> My only caution here is that I find it handy that I can use single
John> stepping to debug many of the things I encounter in gdb, especially
John> the main event loop.

At least for the "parallel for" code that is in this series, it would be
simple to add a debugging flag to force it to take the single-thread
path.

Tom

References:
- [RFC 0/6] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads
  - From: Tom Tromey
- Re: [RFC 0/6] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads
  - From: John Baldwin

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