Re: When is hourglass shown?

[Nick Roberts]

 > I know exactly where now :-).  Not sure what to do about though.  Also, 
 > starting and cancelling hourglass is done frequently, so running with 
 > those breakpoints enabled makes for a lot of continue in gdb.  Not 
 > impossible though.

I'm not sure if this helps, but gdb has 'ignore count', eg.

(gdb) b start_hourglass
Breakpoint 3 at 0x...
(gdb) ignore 3 9
(gdb) b cancel_hourglass
Breakpoint 4 at 0x...
(gdb) ignore 4 9

and gdb will only stop every tenth time.


Nick