How to avoid stepping inside libpthread

[Atsushi Nemoto]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 10:59:58 +0200, Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> wrote:
> > There is a LL/SC loop (atomic_decrement_and_test(&__nptl_nthreads))
> > after the 0x2ab0ae88 in start_thread(), so it is not wonder the single
> > stepping never ends (SC always fail due to a breakpoint exception).
> >
> >
> > Are there any way to avoid falling into such situations?
> 
> See deal_with_atomic_sequence in rs6000-tdep.c, which tries to solve the
> same issue.

Thank you.  I'll try to implement the feature for mips.

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Atsushi Nemoto