Re: [PATCH: gdb/mi + doco] -var-update

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:12:00AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > BTW, if it's OK with you, I would prefer that you add new testcases
>  > rather than modifying existing ones.  Yes, the ones that are there are
>  > slightly redundant.  But changing what a test case is testing is bad
>  > form for long-term results analysis.
> 
> OK.  I'm not very comfortable with expect, but I'll give it a go.

I have learned a frightening (to me anyway) amount about expect and TCL
lately; bug me with any questions you may have.

>  > Now that this patch is in, I believe your current gdb-mi.el will work
>  > with CVS GDB.  Is that right?  If so, could you post it?  I promise to
>  > look at it promptly.
> 
> Yes it does work, but not perfectly (if it did it could go straight into
> the Emacs CVS repository).  It has changed quite a lot since last time.
> Unfortunately it still requires Emacs in CVS, but a release is planned.

Confused - I thought we'd decided it belonged with GDB, not with
emacs, because of the GDB version dependencies?

I won't try to second-guess you about this code - my LISP sucks.  But
could you explain briefly why you changed from -break-insert to "break"
in some places?  Yet at the same time changed from until to
-exec-until...

Anyway, go ahead and check this in.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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