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Re: Support for "break *ADDRESS thread THREADNO"


On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 04:53:55PM +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> Hello,
> 
>  The current version of gdb does not accept the "thread THREADNO" clause 
> for breakpoints at an address.  I'm not sure if that's a bug or feature as 
> the info pages carefully avoid documenting what should happen in this 
> case, referring to source lines instead.
> 
>  Anyway I've found the inability to set up such breakpoints an obstacle, 
> so I've implemented the missing bits for it to work.  Here's the result.  
> I've run-time tested the C language bit only (i.e. c-exp.y), but the other 
> .y changes are essentially the same, so they should work as well.  
> Unfortunately I haven't found a way of testing the Ada part which is 
> significantly different; I hope it's OK.
> 
> 2005-04-12  Maciej W. Rozycki  <macro@mips.com>
> 
> 	* ada-lex.l: Support the "thread THREADNO" clause with breakpoints
> 	at an address.
> 	* c-exp.y (yylex): Likewise.
> 	* f-exp.y (yylex): Likewise.
> 	* jv-exp.y (yylex): Likewise.
> 	* m2-exp.y (yylex): Likewise.
> 	* objc-exp.y (yylex): Likewise.
> 	* p-exp.y (yylex): Likewise.
> 
>  This has been verified for the HEAD version with the test suite for the 
> i386-linux-gnu system natively with no regressions.  Please consider.

No, sorry.  Consider:

(gdb) p *thread
No symbol table is loaded.  Use the "file" command.

After your patch:

(gdb) b *thread
A parse error in expression, near `thread'.

We can get away with this for 'if', because 'if' is a keyword in just
about every language GDB supports, and an unlikely name for a variable.
That's not going to fly for 'thread', however.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC


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