Re: Proposal for customization of output of "to_pid_to_str" op in remote.c

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>]

On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:24:22PM -0800, Nat Gurumoorthy wrote:
> >Daniel Jaccobowitz wrote
> >Let's take a step back. What would you be defining this macro as? What do
> you want besides >"New thread"? 
> 
> Daniel,
>       What I am proposing is that this macro is a call into a print
> function defined in my target-tdep.c file. When I type "info threads"
> this interface is getting invoked and I'd like to print a more
> descriptive string about the various threads running on our hardware.
> Right now it prints it out as
>      8 Thread 6 
> Which is quite confusing. (The first number is GDB internal numbering. 
> The second number is the thread ID issued in my target) What will change 
> is that Thread 6 will become something more descriptive.

The remote protocol allows you to return more information in the stub. 
Can you do that instead?  See ThreadExtraInfo.

> Ps: Daniel I apologize I you are seeing this for the 3rd time. The first
> 2 times I sent it from a Windows machine and the redhat Mailer barfed.

This one has natg@ as your from address, which bounces...

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer