Re: [RFA] improved thread id reporting

[Doug Evans <dje at google dot com>]

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On Thu, May 7, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Doug Evans <dje@google.com> wrote:
> Blech. ?Right list this time.
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> On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 8:33 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
>> On Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 01:36:06PM -0700, Doug Evans wrote:
>>> Attached is a simplistic patch to help illustrate the challenge.
>>>
>>> Here is an example session that prints from/to and the thread number
>>> in "[New ...", "[Switching ...", etc. messages.
>>> I can think of two issues with the patch:
>>> 1) Printing "[tT]hread" twice in one line is a bit annoying.
>>> 2) Spreading from/to over two lines is a bit annoying.
>>
>> What do you think of this? ?On the theory that you can go look up
>> thread #2, either in 'info threads' or in a previous notification:
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>> [Switching from thread #2 to thread #3, Thread 0x41001960 (LWP 14407)]
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> "works for me"
>
>> Or, migrating the "Thread" out:
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>> [Switching from thread #2 to thread #3, 0x41001960 (LWP 14407)]
>>
>> But that might be tricky with multi-process, some ptid_t's are not
>> threads.
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> It's not clear how multi-process is going to work yet (or more likely
> I've forgotten). ?I played with attaching and running several
> processes via gdbserver and all processes appear in "info threads".
> [sidebar: I wouldn't mind "info threads" just showing the threads of
> the current process, otherwise it might get confusing. ?And given that
> "info inferiors" is used to show all the processes IWBN if "inferior
> N" switched to the specified process; a straightforward and intuitive
> mapping from "info threads" + "thread N".]
>
> How about this?
>