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GDB 7.0 released

GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 19:51 UTC (Thu) by cventers (subscriber, #31465)
Parent article: GDB 7.0 released

Reverse debugging sounds very cool, but non-stop debugging sounds even
cooler to me. I guess you just have to arrange for the thread to stop at a
time when it's not holding locks the rest of the program depends on :p


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GDB 7.0 released

Posted Oct 8, 2009 20:21 UTC (Thu) by robert_s (subscriber, #42402) [Link]

"I guess you just have to arrange for the thread to stop at a
time when it's not holding locks the rest of the program depends on"

Sounds like a great way to trigger and investigate race conditions that you'd never thought of.

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