Re: [patch] info threads sort by name and name regex matching

[Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>]

Sergio> Why not `-r regex'?  I think it would be more clear.

Me too.

Sergio> Other commands (`sharedlibrary', `info variables', etc) take a regex as
Sergio> their first argument, without requiring a modifier like `-r'.  If the
Sergio> "pipe" patch were already in, this alphabetical sorting would not be
Sergio> needed...  Anyway, just thinking here.

Piping is nice but I think it is also good to have options for common
cases.

Sergio> I guess Tom did not suggest this because of performance per se, but
Sergio> rather because if you have to make a list in GDB then it is already a
Sergio> convention to use VEC for these things.

Yeah.  I thought it would make the code simpler.

Tom