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Re: [RFA/doco] Document task-specific breakpoints
> Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2009 08:34:41 -0700
> From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
>
> "Running"
> is another one of these states which just says that, from the
> point of view of the program, that this task is not waiting
> for an event, nor sleeping, nor waiting for a rendez-vous, etc.
> It's simply executing some code.
But in fact, it isn't executing some code, it's stopped at a
breakpoint, isn't it? If it is executing code, what code is that?
> > OK, but I think the "running" part should be either fixed or
> > explained.
>
> I think that "Running" is fine and doesn't need fixing.
If I were the user looking at the "Running" status, I'd certainly
think that something is dead wrong with this task-specific breakpoint.