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#### 5.4.4 Thread-Specific Breakpoints

When your program has multiple threads (see Debugging Programs with Multiple Threads), you can choose whether to set breakpoints on all threads, or on a particular thread.

`break` linespec `thread` threadno
`break` linespec `thread` threadno `if ...`
  linespec specifies source lines; there are several ways of writing them (see Specify Location), but the effect is always to specify some source line.

  Use the qualifier ‘`thread threadno`’ with a breakpoint command to specify that you only want gdb to stop the program when a particular thread reaches this breakpoint. threadno is one of the numeric thread identifiers assigned by gdb, shown in the first column of the ‘`info threads`’ display.

  If you do not specify ‘`thread threadno`’ when you set a breakpoint, the breakpoint applies to all threads of your program.

  You can use the `thread` qualifier on conditional breakpoints as well; in this case, place ‘`thread threadno`’ before or after the breakpoint condition, like this:

                (gdb) break frik.c:13 thread 28 if bartab > lim