Re: RFC: MI output during program execution

Jim Ingham
2005-08-10T00:48:29Z

On Aug 9, 2005, at 5:42 PM, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:

> On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:34:34AM -0700, Jim Ingham wrote:
>
>>> How does -interpreter-exec console work in the case when the user
>>> executes a command, that makes up several other commands?
>>>
>>> define mess_with_mi_people
>>> b main
>>> r
>>> n
>>> n
>>> end
>>>
>>> I don't think this case would currently work as expected. Would it?
>>>
>>
>> Remember that only one "run the target" command is allowed in a CLI
>> define. All the others are ignored.
>>
>
> This is true (and documented, I think), but I still consider it a bug.
> It's just a particularly rotten one.

I agree, and it was filed as one by one of our users here... I
looked a bit into what it would take to fix it and it was not
pretty. Particularly for breakpoint commands, where it looked like
it would require some serious surgery.

Jim