[PATCH] PR gdb/11568 - delete thread-specific breakpoints on thread exit
Pedro Alves
palves@redhat.com
Tue Sep 17 19:36:00 GMT 2013
On 09/09/2013 05:07 PM, Tom Tromey wrote:
>>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
>
> Pedro> Here it is. Let me know what you all think.
>
> It looks good to me.
Thanks. I've checked it in now.
> Pedro> There's no way that breakpoint can trigger again (*), so the PR argues
> Pedro> that the breakpoint should just be removed, like local watchpoints.
> Pedro> I'm ambivalent on this -- it could be reasonable to disable the
> Pedro> breakpoint (kind of like breakpoint in shared library code when the
> Pedro> DSO is unloaded), so the user could still use it as visual template
> Pedro> for creating other breakpoints (copy/paste command lists, etc.), or we
> Pedro> could have a way to change to which thread a breakpoint applies. But,
> Pedro> several people pushed this direction, and I don't plan on arguing...
>
> I've sometimes wished for a way to modify a breakpoint in place.
> There may be another PR about this.
> But it's fine to put in this patch now and remove it again later if
> anyone actually implements breakpoint modification.
Yeah.
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Pedro Alves
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