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Re: [RFC] 07/10 non-stop inferior control


On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 02:22:51AM +0100, Pedro Alves wrote:
> Isn't this new_thread_event handling a bandaid for some
> misbehaving target?  My understanding was that targets should handle
> new thread events (and call add_thread*) themselves nowadays.

That might be a little strong; but the Linux and remote targets do so,
because it was much more convenient.

> Since this is a new mode that will require adaptation
> by each target, it sounded reasonable to require that the
> the new_thread_event should never be hit, and that the
> target handles adding threads to GDB's thread list.

If documented in gdbint, I think this would be a reasonable new
restriction.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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