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From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
To: Fabian Cenedese <Cenedese@indel.ch>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Remote thread infos
Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 02:21:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41996289.9020907@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.1.20040920113443.01d5fea8@NT_SERVER>

Fabian Cenedese wrote:
> Hi
> 
> The remote protocol can ask for thread info and more info (qThreadExtraInfo).
> I couldn't find an explicit description about these fields in the manual.
> However in the source code these fields are evaluated as follows:
> 
> sprintf(&display_buf[n], " State: %s,", threadinfo.display);
> sprintf(&display_buf[n], " Priority: %s", threadinfo.more_display);
> 
> It's quite impossible to use these fields for other info as they are explicitely
> prepended with "State" and "Priority". But the manual says: "... may
> contain anything that the target OS thinks is interesting for gdb to tell
> the user about the thread."

Hmm, yes.  I think they have something to do with eCos?

> Is there a possibility to use these texts
> from the CLI as well as MI without the prepended strings? If not
> shouldn't the manual say what these texts are for?

Would KOD be useful?  Or a more descriptive packet?

Andrew

> I know that I can take the strings and remove the leading word, I
> just thought I mention this inconsistency with the manual.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> bye  Fabi
> 
> 
> 

  reply	other threads:[~2004-11-16  2:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-20  9:48 Fabian Cenedese
2004-11-16  2:21 ` Andrew Cagney [this message]
2004-11-16 10:55   ` Fabian Cenedese

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