Re: MI testsuite to use PTY for inferior

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 11:25:03AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > >  More generally I think its wrong to force
>  > > the frontend to separate the output.  Currently, I get reasonable behaviour
>  > > with Emacs without doing this and would always include interleaved output as a
>  > > user option.
>  > 
>  > Would it hurt you to stitch them back together, though?  The fewer
>  > interfaces we have to support, the better...
> 
> I guess it would even be safer in cases where the inferior has similar output
> e.g debugging GDB itself.  However, I thought there were systems where ptys

Yes, I agree.

> weren't available (w32?).  Even if you can't run the testsuite, you might
> still want to run GDB there (actually, I thought FSF GDB *is* being ported to
> w32 - how is it tested?).

Yes.  And, there, we are going to need a different solution.  Probably,
we would declare applications that use the console IO routines directly
unsupported, and run other applications via a pipe, allowing GDB to
capture input and output separately.  Lots of people are interested in
native Windows debugging - but not so many are interested in console
apps!

Speaking for CodeSourcery, we're only porting GDB to Windows _host_. So
it doesn't need much testing besides making sure the CLI works OK.  And
you can run expect under Cygwin to test a mingw32 GDB, which I hadn't
thought about in my previous message.  But we don't do that at the
moment.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC