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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: pmuldoon@redhat.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: PR Python/12212
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Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2010 18:40:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <m37hgdmti0.fsf@redhat.com> (Phil Muldoon's message of "Tue, 16	Nov 2010 10:51:19 +0000")
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>>>>> "Phil" == Phil Muldoon <pmuldoon@redhat.com> writes:

Phil> This patches fixes a case where the API can request the currently
Phil> selected thread from GDB when no inferior is loaded.  This triggers an
Phil> error via assert.  Handle it in Python code instead.

This changes gdb.selected_thread to throw an exception if there is no
thread.  However, this is wrong -- the function is documented to return
None in this case.

Tom