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From: Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
To: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [patch:MI] Observer for thread-changed
Date: Sun, 15 Jun 2008 22:31:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18517.38171.56057.31893@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200806152142.36083.ghost@cs.msu.su>

 > > I agree.  I don't think that we should second guess what front ends will
 > > do.
 > 
 > We should, or frontends will second guess what MI tells them.

If the behaviour of MI is fully documented the frontend won't need to do
guessing of any kind.

 >                                                                "Current
 > thread" is not a exact thing, and "current thread changed" is not an exact
 > thing either, so we should provide specific meaning that is most useful to
 > frontends, and opposed to providing a meaning that is most easy for gdb.

I know that Pedro has a patch that might change things but what different
meanings does "Current thread" have now.  It seems pretty unambiguous to me:
it's the value stored inferior_ptid and the thread that has a "*" next to it
in the output of "info threads".

-- 
Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-15 22:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-09 12:16 Nick Roberts
2008-06-09 13:36 ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-09 13:28   ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-09 15:06   ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-09 14:15     ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-09 23:35   ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-10  1:40     ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-10  2:30       ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-10  3:13         ` Pedro Alves
2008-06-10  6:39           ` Nick Roberts
2009-01-17  0:10             ` [PATCH]:annotations [was Re: [patch:MI] Observer for thread-changed] Nick Roberts
2009-01-17 17:54               ` [PATCH]:annotations Tom Tromey
2008-06-10  8:26         ` [patch:MI] Observer for thread-changed Vladimir Prus
2008-06-10  9:24           ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-10 10:26             ` Vladimir Prus
2008-06-10 17:23           ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-14 18:52             ` Vladimir Prus
2008-06-14 19:13               ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-14 19:22                 ` Bob Rossi
2008-06-15  3:20                   ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-14 20:04                 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-06-15 21:51                   ` Tom Tromey
2008-06-14 19:43               ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-15  0:44                 ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-15 21:03                   ` Vladimir Prus
2008-06-15 22:31                     ` Nick Roberts [this message]
2008-06-16 22:28                     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-06-15 17:58                 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-06-10  8:40 ` Vladimir Prus
2008-06-10  9:19   ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-10  9:36     ` Vladimir Prus
2008-06-11  0:08       ` Nick Roberts
2008-06-11  7:46         ` Eli Zaretskii

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