winedbg: Support longer thread names
Eric Pouech
eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
Tue Mar 13 08:40:57 CDT 2007
Erich Hoover a écrit :
> I am not very familiar with the winedbg code and do not see any easy
> (ie, non-hackish) way to get the length of the string in order to
> properly allocate the name size. I could read back a "large buffer"
> and use the string resulting from that to determine how large of a
> name to allocate, but that seems slightly hackish. If you have a
> suggestion then I'm all ears.
not really, my point was not to allocate a large buffer for every
thread... then reading the thread name requires either that you grow the
buffer while reading small chunks (that would be the less expensive
solution)
A+
>
> Erich Hoover
> ehoover at mines.edu <mailto:ehoover at mines.edu>
>
> On 3/11/07, *Eric Pouech* <eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr
> <mailto:eric.pouech at wanadoo.fr>> wrote:
>
> Erich Hoover a écrit :
> > Real Name:
> > Erich Hoover
> > Description:
> > The thread name length in winedbg is currently restricted to 9
> > characters, this is not nearly long enough for debugging threads in
> > the Supreme Commander demo and results in character corruption
> on the
> > terminal. Since this particular application names one of the
> threads
> > with the map path (Map loader /maps/scmp_019/scmp_019.scmap), a
> > significant increase in the number of characters is
> necessary. This
> > patch ups the allowed thread name length to 100 characters and
> > null-terminates the string in case an application exceeds that
> > threshold value.
> > Changelog:
> > winedbg: Support longer thread names
> in that case, it would be better to dynamically allocate the
> string (and
> to create it by default at 5 bytes for the %04x value)
> furthermore, you need to change the comment in debugger.h in
> THREADNAME_INFO structure about the name's length, as it seems VC7
> removed the restriction to 8 characters that existed in VC6
> A+
>
>
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Eric Pouech
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