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diff --git a/doc/en/threads.html b/doc/en/threads.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3f0d7fb --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/en/threads.html @@ -0,0 +1,42 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> +<html> +<head> + <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> + <meta name="Author" content="Johannes Sixt"> + <title>KDbg - User's Manual - Threads</title> +</head> +<body text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"> +<p><a href="index.html">Contents</a></p> +<h1> +The Threads Window</h1> +<p>The threads window is displayed using <i>View|Threads</i>. The threads +window lists the active threads of the program.</p> +<p><b><i>Note:</i></b> Debugging threaded programs must be supported by +the version of gdb that is used - it is not a feature of KDbg. For Linux +systems this works best with gdb5 and later. However, at the time of this writing gdb +still poorly supports threads on NPTL- (New Posix Threads Library) enabled +systems (glibc 2.3.x and kernel 2.6.x).</p> +<p>The contents of the threads window are updated every time the program +is stopped by the debugger. (That is, the window does <em>not</em> reflect +the state while the program is running.)</p> +<p>The first column shows the thread ID, the second column identifies the +location where the thread currently executes.</p> +<p>The marker in front of the line tells which thread currently is <em>active</em>:</p> +<ul> +<li> +The <a href="stack.html">stack window</a> displays the active threads's +backtrace.</li> + +<li> +The <a href="localvars.html">local variables</a> window displays the active +thread's local variables.</li> + +<li> +The <a href="watches.html">watch window</a> uses the active thread's local +variables to evaluate the expressions.</li> +</ul> +<p>By clicking a listed thread, the active thread is switched, and the corresponding +windows are updated. In particular, the <a href="sourcecode.html">source +window</a> displays the location where the active thread is currently halted.</p> +</body> +</html> |