Re: MI threads behaviour

[Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>]

On Thursday 10 July 2008 01:03:11 Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 04:01:52PM +0400, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > The CLI behaviour of setting GDB current thread to invalid value if the
> > current thread exits will be preserved, but is of limited value, since 
> > the frontend does not depend on current thread directly, and will be notified
> > about thread exit anyway. Therefore, no notification will be emitted in
> > this case.
> 
> What about in all-stop mode, where the CLI behavior is to change to a
> new event thread?

We're talking about thread exit here -- does CLI automatically switch to a non-dead
thread when the current one exits? If so, then the notification would have to
be emitted, too.

> 
> > The notification will be emitted even if the thread user requested to be
> > selected is the same as currently selected thread. Imagine the frontend
> > has two windows open -- in one, UI has thread 1 selected, and in another,
> > UI has thread 2 selected. If user types "thread 2" in GDB console in the
> > first window, would expect the first window UI to switch to thread 2. So,
> > the notification should be emitted even if GDB current thread is 2, 
> > already.
> 
> I don't understand the need for this.  If you're going to let the user
> type a CLI command, then before you can do that you have to make sure
> GDB and the UI are synchronized on the current thread/frame.
> Otherwise "backtrace" or "thread" won't work.

What is "synchronized"? You don't need to emit -thread-select, since there's
--thread, and what I mean is that if have a window where UI's selected thread
is 1, and you type "thread 2" in console, and frontend sends

   -interpreter-exec --thread 1 "thread 2"

then one should get

   =thread-selected,id="2"

regardless of what inferior_ptid was immediately before this command is processed.

- Volodya