From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4312 invoked by alias); 6 Jun 2006 02:04:18 -0000 Received: (qmail 4179 invoked by uid 22791); 6 Jun 2006 02:04:17 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from eastrmmtao01.cox.net (HELO eastrmmtao01.cox.net) (68.230.240.38) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:04:14 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain ([68.9.66.48]) by eastrmmtao01.cox.net (InterMail vM.6.01.06.01 201-2131-130-101-20060113) with ESMTP id <20060606020411.ZEFG17255.eastrmmtao01.cox.net@localhost.localdomain>; Mon, 5 Jun 2006 22:04:11 -0400 Received: from bob by localhost.localdomain with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1FnQvY-0006zE-Op; Mon, 05 Jun 2006 22:04:16 -0400 Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2006 02:04:00 -0000 From: Bob Rossi To: Nick Roberts Cc: Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: starting gdb/mi from FE Message-ID: <20060606020416.GH10045@brasko.net> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , Daniel Jacobowitz , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com References: <17540.53854.931145.771214@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20060606012001.GA7954@nevyn.them.org> <17540.57896.489747.811644@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17540.57896.489747.811644@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 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: 2006-06/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 On Tue, Jun 06, 2006 at 02:02:16PM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote: > > Nick, could you explain why the restart is a problem? The time GDB > > takes to reject an interpreter doesn't seem too bad. I don't want to > > optimize the wrong thing. > > It's just more complicated to handle and I can see no advantage. With Emacs, > compare M-x gdb and mistyping a CLI command to M-x gdb and giving gdb an > unrecognised option. If Nick and I agree on nothing else, we agree here. Bob Rossi