A thread-specific breakpoint really only needs to have locations for the address/program space of the inferior which the thread belongs to. However, we currently expand the breakpoint spec in every program space anyhow. Vis: (gdb) b main thread 1.1 Breakpoint 1 at 0x1285: main. (2 locations) (gdb) info breakpoints Num Type Disp Enb Address What 1 breakpoint keep y <MULTIPLE> thread 1 stop only in thread 1.1 1.1 y 0x0000000000001285 in main at gdb.multi/goodbye.c:61 inf 2 1.2 y 0x00005555555551f0 in main at gdb.multi/hello.c:51 inf 1 Location 1.1 above is worse than useless, as it'll end up inserted and cause inferior 2 to unnecessarily stop only to always be re-resumed. We should instead end up with only one location for inferior 1, just like if inferior 2 did not exist, like: (gdb) b main thread 1.1 Breakpoint 1 at 0x5555555551f0: file gdb.multi/hello.c, line 51. (gdb) info breakpoints Num Type Disp Enb Address What 1 breakpoint keep y 0x00005555555551f0 in main at gdb.multi/hello.c:51 thread 1 stop only in thread 1