We are optimizing the usage of MI commands into our Eclipse based UI. In some cases, it could take a while (and sometime more!) to refresh the thread list and the stack frame, and Eclipse does it very often. We'd like to avoid refreshing the thread and the frame view when the user perform a step (or a next) and when the program stops in the same thread and in the same frame. In the stop reason we got the current thread id, but we are missing something to identify the frame. That patch lets gdb emits on the MI output a string that could be used to easily identify the current frame. If you are ok with this approach then I'll update the testsuite. -- Denis PILAT / STMicroelectronics