What to call a thread/cpu/?

[Andrew Cagney]

Daniel Berlin wrote:
> 
> Andrew Cagney <ac131313@cygnus.com> writes:
> 
> > Hello,
> >
> > At present gdb has this thing called ``struct thread_info *''.  It
> > *should* contains several key GDB data structures including:
> >
> >       o       debug state
> >
> >               What GDB things it is doing
> >               to the thread - is it being
> >               stepped
> >
> >       o       target state
> >
> >               registers, memory, all that suff
> 
> Just a note, this isn't necessarily correct.
> Not all operating systems let you get at the thread registers all the
> time. The thread must be stopped, not in the kernel, etc.

I should have said a context's target state.  Each context has a
separate target state.
See other e-mail.

> What you really want to do is replace target_ops with something like
> a thread_ops, associate the architecture with the thread

See my other e-mail.

	Andrew