From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Return-Path: <gdb-return-31785-listarch-gdb=sources.redhat.com@sourceware.org>
Received: (qmail 22022 invoked by alias); 1 May 2008 16:15:59 -0000
Received: (qmail 22013 invoked by uid 22791); 1 May 2008 16:15:59 -0000
X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org
Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (65.74.133.4)     by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Thu, 01 May 2008 16:15:40 +0000
Received: (qmail 21588 invoked from network); 1 May 2008 16:15:37 -0000
Received: from unknown (HELO localhost) (vladimir@127.0.0.2)   by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 1 May 2008 16:15:37 -0000
From: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>
To: Pawel Piech <pawel.piech@windriver.com>
Subject: Re: MI non-stop interface details
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 16:15:00 -0000
User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 (enterprise 0.20070907.709405)
Cc: Pedro Alves <pedro@codesourcery.com>,  gdb@sourceware.org,  Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
References: <200804261939.37635.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200804291848.51730.pedro@codesourcery.com> <481762E8.5010707@windriver.com>
In-Reply-To: <481762E8.5010707@windriver.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain;   charset="utf-8"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: inline
Message-Id: <200805012015.38035.vladimir@codesourcery.com>
Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
List-Id: <gdb.sourceware.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gdb-subscribe@sourceware.org>
List-Archive: <http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/>
List-Post: <mailto:gdb@sourceware.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gdb-help@sourceware.org>, <http://sourceware.org/ml/#faqs>
Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org
X-SW-Source: 2008-05/txt/msg00003.txt.bz2

On Tuesday 29 April 2008 22:03:20 Pawel Piech wrote:
> Pedro Alves wrote:
> > I can't see how is it different -- in the frontend's perspective --
> > of keeping track of what to pass to --thread= *provided GDB doesn't switch 
> > threads automatically*.  But then again, I'm no frontend writer.
> >   
> 
> Using -thread-select makes it easier for the front end to be compatible 
> with older versions of GDB.

Hmm, I though that only reason that -thread-select is simpler is because
in DSF, specifically, there's no central place where commands are send
and where --thread can be conveniently added. I'm not saying this is good,
or bad, but this is not the case for all frontend. Am I wrong?

- Volodya