From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 8945 invoked by alias); 13 Aug 2005 15:05:03 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 8896 invoked by uid 22791); 13 Aug 2005 15:04:56 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 15:04:56 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1E3xZ8-0004bN-F6; Sat, 13 Aug 2005 11:04:54 -0400 Date: Sat, 13 Aug 2005 16:55:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Jim Ingham , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: RFC: MI output during program execution Message-ID: <20050813150453.GA17636@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Jim Ingham , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Eli Zaretskii References: <20050810004826.GD3557@white> <2040BEEA-4200-4118-91EB-D093ED4D37A1@apple.com> <20050812012810.GA10011@white> <29EA180F-E3C7-4D04-B500-655391EDA2D9@apple.com> <20050813002230.GA11892@white> <20050813011542.GC11892@white> <20050813050414.GA7717@nevyn.them.org> <20050813125333.GA13851@white> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050813125333.GA13851@white> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-08/txt/msg00159.txt.bz2 On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 08:53:33AM -0400, Bob Rossi wrote: > The strange this is, it doesn't look like the "event" approach was a > replacement for the "hook" approach, unless it was a long time coming. > For instance, in breakpoint.c, I don't know what the event interface was designed for; it predates my involvement with GDB. The mailing list archives are a good reference at moments like this. In any case, I don't think it's a widely adopted infrastructure and I don't think it's doing much good. I'd rather add something more specific, and see about removing both the hooks and the events, unless someone can give me a reason to the contrary. Are events currently used? For what? -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC