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Date: Fri, 12 Aug 2005 12:05:00 -0000
From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: RFC: MI output during program execution
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On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:43:19PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 21:28:10 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
> > Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> > Thanks for all the guidence so far. Even though you have not attempted
> > the observer approach, how do you feel about it? Is this something that
> > you think could be accomplished with the current FSF GDB? Nick, Daniel
> > and Eli, do you like this approach?
> 
> The record will show that I dislike using observers in core GDB
> sources (i.e. in the sources released with official GDB
> distributions).  But my opinions on this are usually voted down.

I would like to become more educated on the pros/cons of the two possible
approaches in solving this problem. What do you not like about the
observer approach that the hook approach solves better?

Bob Rossi