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A target has-a 1:N threads?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at redhat dot com>
- To: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2003 10:08:57 -0400
- Subject: A target has-a 1:N threads?
Hello,
At present GDB maintains a thread-db that contains all the "threads"
known to GDB. The list is cross-target. That is, it can include both
LWPs from the lower "process layer" and "threads" from the higher
"thread layer".
I think the currently implicit target <-> thread relationship should be
made more explicit:
- thread_info should point back at it's target
- a target should let you iterate over its "threads"
This, I belive, will help clean-up the current tid:pid dance. A thread
would always know its target and hence thread operations would always be
applied at the correct level.
thoughts?
Andrew