Re: problem switching between threads

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>]

"J.T. Conklin" wrote:
> 
> One of my back burner tasks is to adapt our vxWorks/WDB target to use
> GDB's own thread infrastructure instead of maintaining its own thread
> list, etc.  Earlier today I added code to add each thread to GDB's
> thread list while I was building my the one used by the WDB target.
> This did not work as well as I expected.
> 
> The problem is that switch_to_thread() does not resume the currently
> running thread nor suspend the thread being switched to.  Things get
> confused as a result.  The old task sits around doing nothing, while
> GDB thinks the new task is suspended when it may be executing.
> 
> Has anyone else encountered this, or is GDB's thread support only used
> for targets where all threads stop when one is under debug?

J.T.

I believe your analysis is correct.

	Andrew