Single stepping and threads

[Joel Brobecker]

> That's correct.  GDB is unavoidably intrusive when it comes to
> thread scheduling.  The default behavior ("off"), is the least
> intrusive, and somewhat randomly, unpredictably intrusive.
> 
> "Step" would be more intrusive, and non-randomly so.  It will
> cause the "current" thread to be strongly preferred, and other
> threads will probably starve.
> 
> "On" is the most intrusive -- no other threads can run, and
> if there are any synchronization issues, the program will 
> eventually deadlock.

I personally am a big fan of "on", btw. Your points make me like
it even more...

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Joel