From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 19312 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2006 02:03:03 -0000 Received: (qmail 19077 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jun 2006 02:03:01 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from viper.snap.net.nz (HELO viper.snap.net.nz) (202.37.101.8) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:02:58 +0000 Received: from kahikatea.snap.net.nz (p202-124-112-224.snap.net.nz [202.124.112.224]) by viper.snap.net.nz (Postfix) with ESMTP id D78BD7589F3; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:02:57 +1200 (NZST) Received: by kahikatea.snap.net.nz (Postfix, from userid 500) id A8C9E1D3550; Tue, 6 Jun 2006 14:02:17 +1200 (NZST) From: Nick Roberts MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17540.57896.489747.811644@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:03:00 -0000 To: Daniel Jacobowitz Cc: Bob Rossi , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: starting gdb/mi from FE In-Reply-To: <20060606012001.GA7954@nevyn.them.org> References: <17540.53854.931145.771214@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20060606012001.GA7954@nevyn.them.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.0.50.20 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-06/txt/msg00058.txt.bz2 > Nick, could you explain why the restart is a problem? The time GDB > takes to reject an interpreter doesn't seem too bad. I don't want to > optimize the wrong thing. It's just more complicated to handle and I can see no advantage. With Emacs, compare M-x gdb and mistyping a CLI command to M-x gdb and giving gdb an unrecognised option. > ... > I thought there already was a "set interp", but it seems I was > mistaken. I think Apple have such a command but have not ported it back to FSF GDB -- Nick http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob