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Re: info thread

On Sat, Sep 23, 2006 at 09:05:56PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> Note that the formatting of the thread ID produced by to_pid_to_str is
> highly dependent on the specific threads model in use.  The thread
> extra info is also mostly free-form.  That means it might not be wise
> to export that information in the MI interface.

Except as strings, presumably?

It's supposed to be useful to users; the extra information is supposed
to be exactly what would be useful in a dialog box listing threads.

I agree that some words in the MI documentation about which strings
to consider "opaque" may be in order, here and in other places (e.g.
relating to frames...)

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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