Re: [Qemu-devel] [5743] gdbstub: manage CPUs as threads (Jan Kiszka)

[Anthony Liguori]

Paul Brook wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2008, Anthony Liguori wrote:
>   
> > Revision: 5743
> >           http://svn.sv.gnu.org/viewvc/?view=rev&root=qemu&revision=5743
> > Author:   aliguori
> > Date:     2008-11-18 20:30:24 +0000 (Tue, 18 Nov 2008)
> >
> > Log Message:
> > -----------
> > gdbstub: manage CPUs as threads (Jan Kiszka)
> >     
>
> This is wrong. CPUs do not share the same address space, so should be modelled 
> as processes, not threads.
>   

They share the same physical address space.  How well does GDB support 
debugging processes verses threads?  A cursory look seems to suggest the 
thread debugging support is slightly better (thread events) than the 
process debugging support.  They look very similar though.

Regards,

Anthony Liguori

> Paul
>