Re: enable a couple of useful cli commands in async mode.

Daniel Jacobowitz
2008-03-14T14:36:12Z

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:59:55AM +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
> This is needed to test/develop async with CLI. The info info command is
> very useful to debug gdb itself, and the interrupt command is needed to be
> able to SIGINT the target. Without it, the user is trapped in the hole
> of wanting to quit, but gdb complaining "I can't do that Dave" while the
> target is running. "stop" is there already, so I added break too,
> although it doesn't work yet.
>
> CLI command filtering this way is a gross hack that needs cleaning
> up anyway. Since noone is using this currently, I went ahead and installed
> as obvious.

I'm confused by your choices. "stop" is not the command you think it
is. There's a "stop_command" in breakpoint.c but that's the
DBX-compatibility version of "break". The command "stop" doesn't
do anything; it's only there for hook-stop.

Also, how can we enable "info"? That will let you type "info regs"
while the target is running; does something produce a useful error
further down?

"interrupt" makes sense. In fact I think this is what whoever added
"stop" actually meant to add.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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