Re: [cdt-patch] Reloaded: Displaying thread names in debug view

[Stefan Bylund <steby@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Norbert,

I was the one who added the support for optionally displaying thread 
names in the CDT debug view. This feature was added in the patch
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cdt-patch/msg02506.html and 
described in the corresponding bug report 
https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=69711.

This patch was initiated by a discussion of this issue found here: 
http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/cdt-debug-dev/msg00462.html

The conclusion was that there is no reliable way to retrieve thread 
names and other thread metadata from the output of the "info threads" 
command in a platform-independent manner. Instead, we choose to only 
provide the foundation for a third party to do this.

Your patch seems to assume that thread names from the output of "info 
threads" are in the form "Name: <name>", which is not true on all platforms.

Until there is an MI-version of the "info threads" command that reports 
thread metadata in a strict form, I think that we should leave parsing 
thread names to third party extensions using the foundation provided by 
the patch 69711.

Regards,
/Stefan


Ploett, Norbert wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> this is picking up an enhancement suggestion and short discussion (see
> cdt-dev of 2005-08-08) about the display of thread names in the debug
> view. I have now created and enhancement request
> https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=115804 and the required
> patch is attached to the request and this message. 
> Thanks for comments / approval.
>
>
> Norbert Ploett
>
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