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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. 
Cheers,
Pawel