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Re: gdb
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: "Richard A. Painter" <r dot painter at ieee dot org>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2002 23:37:58 -0400
- Subject: Re: gdb
- References: <3D40B4CB.D569130A@ieee.org>
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 08:32:43PM -0600, Richard A. Painter wrote:
> i was reviewing the documentation for gdb and found no references to pthreads
> specifically but did see some thread support.
>
> pthreads embodies threads, mutexes and condition variables. i saw no references
> to the mutexes and condition variables in the docs.
>
> does gdb support pthreads, mutexes and condition variables?
How would a debugger support mutexes and condition variables? They'll
still work in programs run under the debugger. Pthreads does not
expose convenient interfaces for examining their states, though.
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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer