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Re: Proposal for customization of output of "to_pid_to_str" op in remote.c
- From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>
- To: Nat Gurumoorthy <natg at ubicom dot com>
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2002 22:04:48 -0500
- Subject: Re: Proposal for customization of output of "to_pid_to_str" op in remote.c
- References: <200212110224.gBB2OMH29101@ubicom.com>
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 06:24:22PM -0800, Nat Gurumoorthy wrote:
> >Daniel Jaccobowitz wrote
> >Let's take a step back. What would you be defining this macro as? What do
> you want besides >"New thread"?
>
> Daniel,
> What I am proposing is that this macro is a call into a print
> function defined in my target-tdep.c file. When I type "info threads"
> this interface is getting invoked and I'd like to print a more
> descriptive string about the various threads running on our hardware.
> Right now it prints it out as
> 8 Thread 6
> Which is quite confusing. (The first number is GDB internal numbering.
> The second number is the thread ID issued in my target) What will change
> is that Thread 6 will become something more descriptive.
The remote protocol allows you to return more information in the stub.
Can you do that instead? See ThreadExtraInfo.
> Ps: Daniel I apologize I you are seeing this for the 3rd time. The first
> 2 times I sent it from a Windows machine and the redhat Mailer barfed.
This one has natg@ as your from address, which bounces...
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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer