Re: linux native async mode support

Nick Roberts
2008-03-17T23:41:28Z

> > Daniel talks about async mode being the default but I don't really
> > understand this. In order for Gdb to be able to accept input while the
> > inferior is running and possibly accepting it's own input, seems to require
> > separate terminals. This isn't a problem for a front end but, in general,
> > will be when Gdb is run from the command line.
>
> This is a confusion of terms. The async mode he was refering to, is
> the event loop code path, in which we (ideally) never block in
> wait_for_inferior.

Maybe it will be useful in non-stop mode but it seems to me that there will
always be a problem when the inferior tries to read from/write to the terminal.
In any case, async mode is immediately useful for a frontend so, to begin with,
it might be a good idea to turn it on by default just for MI.

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