Watchpoints stopping GDB on specific threads

[Luis Machado]

On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 22:41 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Luis Machado <luisgpm@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> > Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 13:20:58 -0300
> > 
> > I'm looking forward to have the same functionality for watchpoints. So
> > whenever GDB detects a watchpoint trigger, it would verify the current
> > thread and would stop only if the thread matches the ID we provided in a
> > command like "watch <address> thread <id>". if no ID is provided, GDB
> > would stop at every thread as usual (assuming a threaded watchpoint
> > support).
> 
> Unless I misunderstand something fundamental, if the current thread ID
> is in some variable, you could define a condition for a watchpoint,
> no?

Using the "if" statement? But in which kind of variable? A user defined
variable on GDB or a variable inside the inferior?

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