Re: [RFA] Thread exit messages on MS-Windows

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
> Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2013 08:37:06 -0600
> 
> >>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> In thread.c, I see that add_thread_with_info will announce new threads
> >> if print_thread_events is non-zero, but I see no similar announcement
> >> in delete_thread or its subroutines.  Is this supposed to be handled
> >> by target-specific back ends?  I see something like that in, e.g.,
> >> linux-nat.c and in inf-ttrace.c, but I'm unsure whether that is a
> >> conclusive evidence.
> >> 
> >> If indeed thread deletion should be announced by the target, why this
> >> asymmetry with thread creation?
> 
> Eli> No one replied, so I'm now converting this into an RFA.  The patch
> Eli> below causes GDB on Windows to display thread exit messages like this:
> 
> I didn't answer, but I also wonder why it is not done by delete_thread.

If we decide to do this in delete_thread, then we will have to remove
the announcements in several target-specific files which do that, like
linux-nat.c.  Is that OK?