[RFA/doco] Document task-specific breakpoints

Tom Tromey tromey@redhat.com
Fri Mar 27 16:11:00 GMT 2009


>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Joel> "Running"
Joel> is another one of these states which just says that, from the
Joel> point of view of the program, that this task is not waiting
Joel> for an event, nor sleeping, nor waiting for a rendez-vous, etc.
Joel> It's simply executing some code.

Eli> But in fact, it isn't executing some code, it's stopped at a
Eli> breakpoint, isn't it?  If it is executing code, what code is that?

It is displaying the state as the program sees it, not gdb's view of
the task.

Perhaps the documentation can explain why a stopped task might say
"running".

Tom



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