A target has-a 1:N threads?
Andrew Cagney
ac131313@redhat.com
Thu Oct 9 15:40:00 GMT 2003
> 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.
Make that 0:N threads. I forgot the targets that don't have threads.
Andrew
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