Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-thread-posix: Fix build against older glibc version

[Peter Maydell]

On 11 March 2014 19:46, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden> wrote:
> * Michael S. Tsirkin (address@hidden) wrote:
>
>> Shouldn't we prevent the unsupported option from
>> appearing in qemu output though?
>> Otherwise how does user know whether it works?
>
> I'll make it spit a warning if you try and enable it on a platform
> that doesn't have a way of doing it; ifdef all the option parsing
> would just make everywhere messy and in the end we defined it
> as a debug option.

When would you want to not enable it? If this is
purely for debug convenience why not just have "always
set thread names if the platform allows it" ?

thanks
-- PMM