Re: [Help-smalltalk] Single-step debugging, Semaphore and thread-scheduling

[Paolo Bonzini]

Il 05/05/2014 02:16, Holger Hans Peter Freyther ha scritto:
> > > Any ideas for a short-term fix? I would love to release v3.3 of GST
> > > but the VisualGST debugger is breaking in way too simple ways right
> > > now.
> VisualGST.GtkDebugger extend [
>     debugWith: aBlock [
>         <category: 'execute events'>
>
>         TaskQueue uniqueInstance add: [
>             self isLastContextSelected ifFalse: [ self stepToSelectedContext ].
>             aBlock value.
>             debugger suspendedContext ifNotNil: [
>                 (debugger suspendedContext method = 
> (Object>>#removeToBeFinalized))
>                     ifTrue: [debugger finish]].
>             self updateContextWidget ]
>     ]
> ]
>
>
> This would be my proposal. Determine some methods we can not support in
> single-step mode and then just skip them. Right now this would be the
> addToBeFinalized/removeToBeFinalized as the Glib/Gtk code is using them
> internally. Same probably goes for the Transcript>>#critical: if the
> rest of the code would go through "self critical:" instead of "semaphore
> criticial".

With a comment, that looks good.

Paolo