Debug single thread in multithread-application.

[themts]

Hey guys,

I have an application which uses many background-threads to communicate with some hardware.
This hardware uses watchdogs to check communication-interruptions.

When I use breakpoints to debug my application all threads are interrupted and the watchdogs throw error-messages.

Is there a way to debug only a certain thread without freezing other threads?

CU
mts

P.S. Right now I'm using windows MSVC2015 but in the future I will compile and debug the application on linux as well.

[SGaist]

Hi,

From a quick look, there might be something for you here in the visual studio documentation.

Hope it helps

[themts]

Sorry for the long delay.
I'm using qt-creator. It would be nice to have a function in there.

a) halt only the thread where the breakpoint gets called from
b) prevent some threads from getting paused

Do you have any idea if this is possible?

[J.Hilk]

@themts

If you right click a breakpoint you can edit it, in the advanced you can edit Thread specifications.
I think this is what you want, but I'm not sure, haven't used that feature yet myself.

[themts]

I have seen this setting before but I have no idea what I can enter there?
Unfortunately there is no documentation about this parameter at all.

[kshegunov]

Speculating here, but try putting the thread id in that field - the number you see it in the threads list.