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Re: Debugging Emacs with threads
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Andreas Schwab |
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Re: Debugging Emacs with threads |
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Sun, 11 Dec 2016 17:43:56 +0100 |
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On Dez 11 2016, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> 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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