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gdb/525: Meaning of Hc packet?

From: ac131313 at redhat dot com
To: gdb-gnats at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: 3 May 2002 20:00:04 -0000
Subject: gdb/525: Meaning of Hc packet?
Reply-to: ac131313 at redhat dot com


>Number:         525
>Category:       gdb
>Synopsis:       Meaning of Hc packet?
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    unassigned
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri May 03 13:08:00 PDT 2002
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>Originator:     ac131313@redhat.com
>Release:        unknown-1.0
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>Description:
> 5. exact meaning of Hc - last time I check it did not mean anything because gdb itself was not able to support per thread breakpoints

I believe it is used for a ``thread hop''.  A thread hop occures when you want to step just one thread over a breakpoint (without allowing any other threads to sneak through).

It doesn't have anything to do with per-thread breakpoints.

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