Re: A target has-a 1:N threads?

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

>> Hello,
>> 
>> At present GDB maintains a thread-db that contains all the "threads" known to GDB.  The list is cross-target.  That is, it can include both LWPs from the lower "process layer" and "threads" from the higher "thread layer".
>> 
>> I think the currently implicit target <-> thread relationship should be made more explicit:
>> 
>> - thread_info should point back at it's target
>> - a target should let you iterate over its "threads"
>> 
>> This, I belive, will help clean-up the current tid:pid dance.  A thread would always know its target and hence thread operations would always be applied at the correct level.

> 
> Make that 0:N threads.  I forgot the targets that don't have threads.

It's really, really not my day.

The "0" is for the case where nothing has executed.  For instance, a not 
yet running executable (Kevin's e-mail under another related 
thread^D^D^D^Dtopic raised it).  Once the executable has executed, 
there's at least one "thread".

Andrew