From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 13738 invoked by alias); 12 May 2006 19:16:06 -0000 Received: (qmail 13728 invoked by uid 22791); 12 May 2006 19:16:04 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from eastrmmtao06.cox.net (HELO eastrmmtao06.cox.net) (68.230.240.33) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Fri, 12 May 2006 19:16:01 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([68.9.66.48]) by eastrmmtao06.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060512191558.IBXB16402.eastrmmtao06.cox.net@localhost.localdomain>; Fri, 12 May 2006 15:15:58 -0400 Received: from bob by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.52) id 1Fed7w-0007oN-I9; Fri, 12 May 2006 15:16:40 -0400 Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 19:19:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Eli Zaretskii Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch Message-ID: <20060512191640.GI26655@brasko.net> Mail-Followup-To: Eli Zaretskii , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <20060512011730.GA26655@brasko.net> <20060512125433.GD26655@brasko.net> <20060512142135.GG26655@brasko.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2006-05/txt/msg00257.txt.bz2 On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:27:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:21:35 -0400 > > From: Bob Rossi > > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com > > > > I'm not sure if it helps to think of things in terms of releases in > > regards to GDB/MI. Unfortunatly, many distros package a CVS release of > > GDB. So, any given snapshot of GDB could have this feature or not. > > People who use GDB snapshots are on their own when some feature > evolves during development. So I'm not bothered by this. Please please don't say this. It's just not a practical statement to make. Many of the distrobutions use CVS snapshots. > > However, with that said, Nick posted this: > > > > 2005-02-20 Andrew Cagney > > > > * mi/mi-main.c (captured_mi_execute_command): Use > > mi_cmd_interpreter_exec. > > Thanks for the reference. > > > So I believe that's the day when it started working nice. Eli, the real > > problem is, mi2 is the currently supported protocol, and certain > > versions of mi2 work and certain version don't, so I'm not sure this is > > a historical issue. > > It's history from the point view of someone who reads the manual with > your patches: the old behavior is already gone in the GDB version that > goes with that manual. > > > I thought I did, but apparently I was unclear. The next 2 paragraphs > > were supposed to describe what it's role is now, I'm sorry to see it was > > written so unclear. > > Thanks for the clarifications. I will try to come up with some text > that adds the necessary information. Thanks Eli! Bob Rossi