From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] Add maint set/show enable-threads
Date: Mon, 27 May 2019 02:32:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <834l5g39v6.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zpxdjvv.fsf@tromey.com> (message from Tom Tromey on Sun, 26 May 2019 14:46:12 -0600)
> From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
> Cc: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Sun, 26 May 2019 14:46:12 -0600
>
> >> +maint set enable-threads
> >> +maint show enable-threads
> >> + Control whether GDB can use threads. The default is "on".
>
> Eli> I'd suggest to say what will threads be used for.
>
> In NEWS I guess it's ok, but elsewhere I'd prefer to be a bit vague
> about the precise use of threads. That way the documentation won't go
> stale if we add more uses.
That's okay, we can be vague. How about saying that "threads are used
for some CPU-extensive processing, such as ..." and give one example?
My point is that leaving it entirely unsaid is way too vague,
especially for readers who might be debugging programs that themselves
use threads.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-27 2:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-18 21:00 [PATCH v2 0/8] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 1/8] Defer minimal symbol name-setting Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 3/8] Add configure check for std::thread Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 4/8] Lock the demangled hash table Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 5/8] Introduce run_on_main_thread Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 6/8] Introduce thread-safe way to handle SIGSEGV Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 2/8] Remove static buffer from ada_decode Tom Tromey
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 8/8] Add maint set/show enable-threads Tom Tromey
2019-05-22 5:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2019-05-26 20:46 ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-27 2:32 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2019-05-18 21:00 ` [PATCH v2 7/8] Demangle minsyms in parallel Tom Tromey
2019-05-19 13:59 ` [PATCH v2 0/8] Demangle minimal symbol names in worker threads Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-19 18:55 ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-21 0:35 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-05-21 7:35 ` Andrew Burgess
2019-05-21 15:45 ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-21 16:21 ` Andrew Burgess
2019-05-31 2:48 ` Tom Tromey
2019-05-31 17:13 ` Philippe Waroquiers
2019-09-29 0:35 ` [PATCH] Don't use the mutex for each symbol_set_names call Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-09-30 14:18 ` Tom Tromey
2019-09-30 16:55 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-02 17:18 ` Tom Tromey
2019-10-02 18:20 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-02 22:02 ` Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-03 18:15 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] Precompute hash value for symbol_set_names Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-03 18:15 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] Don't use the mutex for each symbol_set_names call Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-09-30 21:45 ` [PATCH] " Christian Biesinger via gdb-patches
2019-10-01 17:02 ` Tom Tromey
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