From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Elena Zannoni To: Todd Whitesel Cc: jtc@redback.com, fnasser@cygnus.com, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: RFA: Remove unused synchronous code Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 07:05:00 -0000 Message-id: <15032.49947.130097.226505@kwikemart.cygnus.com> References: <5m8zpzkeir.fsf@jtc.redback.com> <200103211008.CAA09266@shell17.ba.best.com> X-SW-Source: 2001-03/msg00401.html Todd Whitesel writes: > > Not so fast. There was some issue, I think related to stopping the > > inferior, that I reported shortly after the async loop as made the > > default. I believe the fix was grotty enough that we (redback) were > > forced to go back to using the synchronous loop. > > > > I'll try to look up the details sometime later today. > I missed this one somehow. Did JT post this? Ok, one more argument to keep the code there a while longer. > Whatever came of this? > > FWIW the Wind River patches to GDB still use the sync loop, but only because > I have not gotten around to moving my command_loop/command_line_input patches > over to the async versions of those functions. I also have to ditch my async > patches for the official ones, but that's a separate issue. > OK, so yes, it's still a little early to complete the migration to async. Elena > Todd Whitesel > toddpw @ best.com >