[lldb-dev] Running other threads while stepping

[jingham at apple.com]

On Sep 6, 2013, at 9:21 AM, Ed Maste <emaste at freebsd.org> wrote:

> On 6 September 2013 11:33,  <jingham at apple.com> wrote:
> 
>> I do want to add some command that will inspect the current thread plans, so you could see how they are stacked and cancel ones you don't care about anymore.  For instance, if you do:
>> 
>> step over -> hit a breakpoint below on the stack
>> step over -> hit another breakpoint
>> 
>> etc.  Then if you continue, you'll finish the latest step over (unless you hit another breakpoint in the process...)  Then continue again will complete the second step over.  This is often quite convenient, but sometimes you just want to forget about the step-over's and continue running.  This would provide a way to do that.  Perhaps that would be a good place to insert some info about how the plans will run the threads.
> 
> That would be perfect.  I ended up adding a bunch of log Printfs to
> the thread plan functions in my tree in order to understand what was
> happening, including the stop_others value when pushing /  queuing a
> sub plan.  It might be handy to have the capability of querying the
> thread plans for a step / next without actually executing it as well.


Yes, that would be interesting as well.  This is not something I'm likely to have time to do in the near term, but if anybody else wants to take it on I'd be happy to help...

Jim