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From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Debugging Emacs with threads
Date: Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:43:56 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pokyju0j.fsf@linux-m68k.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83inqqe8kb.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sun, 11 Dec 2016 18:26:12 +0200")

On Dez 11 2016, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> When Emacs stops due to a breakpoint, the thread that is the current
> one is in sync between GDB and Emacs.  IOW, the current_thread
> variable describes the same thread on which GDB commands will act.
> But as soon as you say something like "thread 1" at the GDB prompt,
> this synchronization is lost: GDB acts on the thread you specified,
> while current_thread is still pointing at the thread which was the
> current one when Emacs stopped.

Why isn't current_thread a thread-local variable?

Andreas.

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  reply	other threads:[~2016-12-11 16:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-11 16:26 Debugging Emacs with threads Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-11 16:43 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2016-12-11 17:37   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-11 18:04     ` Andreas Schwab
2016-12-11 18:12       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-12  3:07   ` Ken Raeburn
2016-12-12  3:18 ` Ken Raeburn
2016-12-12 17:38   ` Eli Zaretskii

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