Re: RFC: Fix "break *EXP thread NUM"

Tom Tromey
2009-11-24T17:08:41Z

>>>>> "Daniel" == Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

>> (gdb) b main thread -10
>> Unknown thread -10.

Daniel> Ditto, and these are much more trouble because thread +10 is a valid C
Daniel> expression. Fortunately, thread numbers are always positive. Is this
Daniel> useful?

I think it is fine for us to accept only whatever it is that gdb prints.
Translating gdb's thread id to octal can't be a common thing to do.

Thanks for working on this; it has come up several time. BTW, it is PR
8704.

Tom