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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: "Pierre Muller" <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr>
Cc: <gdb-patches@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Add possibility to stop at thread events
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>>>>> "Pierre" == Pierre Muller <muller@ics.u-strasbg.fr> writes:

Pierre>   The patch below adds the possibility to stop
Pierre> the debuggee each time a thread is created or exited.

Pierre> +  add_setshow_zinteger_cmd ("stop-on-thread-events", class_support,
Pierre> +			    &stop_on_thread_events, _("\

Did you consider making this a "catch" command instead?  And
consequently having it show up in "info break"?

I think catch commands are preferable to other ad hoc "stopping"
commands, because users can put commands on a catch, but they can't
readily put commands on something like this.

Tom