Re: [PATCH] New annotation for threads

[Nick Roberts <nickrob at snap dot net dot nz>]

 > > This is just an annotation equivalent of Vladimir's patch for an observer
 > > for new threads.
 > 
 > I'd really like to have others' opinions on this one.  I thought that
 > we weren't going to change our annotations anymore. And even though
 > we were not going to remove annotations for a while longer, we were
 > going to focuse on MI instead.

It doesn't impede MI development, so you could think of it as orthogonal.
Clearly it can eventually be removed with the rest of annotations.

 > The change is sufficiently small that I'm thinking, why not, but can't
 > approve the suggestion just by myself.

I would just use it to notify Emacs that an application was multi-threaded and
display the selected thread number in the mode-line.  It won't work if
Vladimir's patch is approved in it's original form (Apr 26: [RFA] Report the
main thread) but it now looks like any change made there will be just to
MI which won't affect this patch.

 > Regarding the code itself:
 > 
 > > 2008-04-18  Nick Roberts  <nickrob@snap.net.nz>
 > > 
 > > 	* annotate.h: (annotate_new_thread): New extern.
 > > 
 > > 	* annotate.c (annotate_new_thread): New function.
 > > 
 > > 	* thread.c (add_thread_with_info): Use it.
 > 
 > How about creating a new observer for new_threads events instead of
 > specifically calling an annotation function from "add_thread"? Seems
 > much cleaner that way.

I'm not sure what you mean, or how I would register such an observer.
All other annotations are done this way and, unlike MI, annotations don't
have their own interpreter but just mark up CLI.

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob