Re: Interesting Magic # exception understood by the MS debugger...

[Alexandre Julliard]

"James Hatheway" <james(a)macadamian.com> writes:
> For now, I put the little hack I attached to this mail in my tree to
> save my sanity.  My question to the list is, (A) is there a way to name
> threads in Linux/Unix (I don't think so, but of course I could be wrong)

No, and we don't need that.
> and (B) should we support MS's hack somehow in the official tree?

Yes, in the Wine debugger, which should store the name and simply
continue execution, just like the MSVC debugger does.

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Alexandre Julliard
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Interesting Magic # exception understood by the MS debugger...

[James Hatheway]

> > and (B) should we support MS's hack somehow in the official tree?
>
> Yes, in the Wine debugger, which should store the name and simply
> continue execution, just like the MSVC debugger does.

OK, I don't know too much about the internals of the WINE debugger, so
here goes.  Is there a field for this already, or should I make a new
field in DBG_THREAD structure? (I think that seems like the right place
for it)


-James

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