From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tom Tromey Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: the state of the concurrency branch Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 14:30:43 -0600 Message-ID: <87k3j97bt8.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> References: <87vc2t7erx.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> <521A5CBB.2060509@cs.ucla.edu> <87ppt17dze.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1377462660 13042 80.91.229.3 (25 Aug 2013 20:31:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 25 Aug 2013 20:31:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs discussions To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Aug 25 22:31:03 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgxi-0000ce-Qw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 22:31:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:47530 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgxh-0004EU-SQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:31:01 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58902) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgxa-0004EB-4g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:31:00 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgxU-0001SP-5Y for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:62772) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VDgxT-0001SJ-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.24]) by mx1.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7PKUjaI014337 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=OK); Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:30:45 -0400 Original-Received: from barimba (ovpn-113-142.phx2.redhat.com [10.3.113.142]) by int-mx11.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com (8.14.4/8.14.4) with ESMTP id r7PKUhi6009094 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Sun, 25 Aug 2013 16:30:44 -0400 X-Attribution: Tom In-Reply-To: <87ppt17dze.fsf@fleche.redhat.com> (Tom Tromey's message of "Sun, 25 Aug 2013 13:43:49 -0600") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.3 (gnu/linux) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.68 on 10.5.11.24 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 3.x X-Received-From: 209.132.183.28 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:163024 Archived-At: Paul> * How do you debug? Both Elisp code, and the C substrate. Tom> In C it is just as easy as anything else. Tom> For elisp, yeah, that's a problem. There really isn't a decent way, I Tom> think. Just printfs. Let me rephrase that a bit. Right now I think nothing prevents any other thread from starting the debugger. So maybe "non-main" threads can be debugged in the ordinary way. I am not totally sure -- I will try it. Tom