From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 11323 invoked by alias); 23 Sep 2006 21:59:57 -0000 Received: (qmail 11313 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Sep 2006 21:59:57 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31.1) with ESMTP; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:59:54 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.54) id 1GRFXH-0007gI-SA; Sat, 23 Sep 2006 17:59:47 -0400 Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2006 21:59:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: nickrob@snap.net.nz, denis.pilat@st.com, gdb@sourceware.org Subject: Re: info thread Message-ID: <20060923215947.GA29366@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , nickrob@snap.net.nz, denis.pilat@st.com, gdb@sourceware.org References: <17679.5055.729126.253019@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <450FED7C.1050902@st.com> <17680.22719.512121.415472@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20060919210316.GA17479@nevyn.them.org> <200609231905.k8NJ5ucX001839@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200609231905.k8NJ5ucX001839@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-09/txt/msg00139.txt.bz2 On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > Note that the formatting of the thread ID produced by to_pid_to_str is > highly dependent on the specific threads model in use. The thread > extra info is also mostly free-form. That means it might not be wise > to export that information in the MI interface. Except as strings, presumably? It's supposed to be useful to users; the extra information is supposed to be exactly what would be useful in a dialog box listing threads. I agree that some words in the MI documentation about which strings to consider "opaque" may be in order, here and in other places (e.g. relating to frames...) -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery