RE: [PATCH 2/2] gdb, multi-target: pass a target argument to delete_exited_threads

["Aktemur, Tankut Baris" <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com>]

Hi Andrew,

On Friday, April 17, 2026 5:20 PM, Andrew Burgess wrote:
> Tankut Baris Aktemur <tankut.baris.aktemur@intel.com> writes:
> 
> > Similar to the parent commit, delete_exited_threads is also mostly
> > used in the context of a particular target.  Pass that target as a
> > parameter and skip other targets.
> >
> > There seems to be two cases where we actually would want to iterate
> > all targets.  One use is in inferior_appeared (inferior.c) and the
> > other is in thread_select (thread.c).  To handle these cases, allow
> > the argument to be nullptr.
> 
> Similar comment to patch #1 in this series; I'd like to understand if
> there was some motivating issue that triggered this change or not.

No particular issue for this one but it is so similar to prune_threads
that it would smell if we did filtering for one but not for the other.

-Baris


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