MI non-stop interface details

Vladimir Prus vladimir@codesourcery.com
Thu May 1 16:15:00 GMT 2008


On Tuesday 29 April 2008 22:03:20 Pawel Piech wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, I though that only reason that -thread-select is simpler is because
in DSF, specifically, there's no central place where commands are send
and where --thread can be conveniently added. I'm not saying this is good,
or bad, but this is not the case for all frontend. Am I wrong?

- Volodya



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