Re: [RFC] New threadnum command for breakpoints

Frederic RISS
2006-08-16T08:15:52Z

Hi

On Tue, 2006-08-08 at 21:42 +0200, FrÃ©dÃ©ric Riss wrote:
> > If you want it to be the last stopped thread, which seems reasonable,
> > is there a better name we could give it? Or is $_gdb_thread
> > sufficiently clear?
>
> I'm not sure. The name itself looks fine to me but, speaking as a user,
> I find the leading '_' a bit strange. It seems to imply something about
> the variable, but it's not clear what.
> If it was a convention and all variables would share the same prefix,
> then it wouldn't feel so strange. On the other side if we want to use a
> common convention we've got to start somewhere.
> Anyway that's just a personal feeling, and really no big deal, maybe
> others could share their opinion?

Nobody seems to care. How about we go on with the current patch (modulo
the doco fix that Eli requested)?

Current patch:
http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb-patches/2006-07/msg00434.html

Fred.