On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:11:46PM +0100, Thomas Pfaff wrote: >This patch allows a debugger to attach when an exception occurs in a >thread other than the mainthread. > >I am not happy about the wait in handle_exceptions, but it works on my >machine. I think that a waitloop until the debugger is attached is >cleaner, but there must be a reason why the debbugging loop is >implemented this way.
The intent is for an attached debugger to immediately see the location that died. If you loop in the try_to_debug code then it is a pain to figure out exactly where the exception occurred. I don't understand why this code is needed. Why do threads need to be suspended and resumed specially? cgf
