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Watchpoints in multithreaded programs
- From: Steve Freeland <caucasatron at yahoo dot ca>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Cc: caucasatron at yahoo dot ca
- Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2006 14:23:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Watchpoints in multithreaded programs
Hello,
What is the status of gdb's support for watchpoint in multithreaded apps?
The manual states here: http://sources.redhat.com/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_6.html#SEC34 that "With the current watchpoint implementation, GDB
can only watch the value of an expression in a single thread."
However, there's a thread on gdb-patches here from 2004 that seems to indicate that this
limitation was in the process of being eliminated: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb-patches/2004-12/msg00256.html
So... I'm a bit confused. Is the manual out of date? Did the "watchthreads" patch never make
it into mainline builds for some reason?
Thanks in advance,
- Steve