From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 26499 invoked by alias); 23 Mar 2008 16:22:24 -0000 Received: (qmail 26409 invoked by uid 22791); 23 Mar 2008 16:22:24 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from NaN.false.org (HELO nan.false.org) (208.75.86.248) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:22:04 +0000 Received: from nan.false.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5FFAD983C6; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:22:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from caradoc.them.org (22.svnf5.xdsl.nauticom.net [209.195.183.55]) by nan.false.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0E63A982C4; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:22:02 +0000 (GMT) Received: from drow by caradoc.them.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1JdSxM-0003Xj-IS; Sun, 23 Mar 2008 12:22:00 -0400 Date: Sun, 23 Mar 2008 16:22:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Nick Roberts Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: [RFA] Implement -thread-info. Message-ID: <20080323162200.GA13603@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Nick Roberts , Vladimir Prus , gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com, Eli Zaretskii References: <200802171833.26673.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <200802181038.04497.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <18361.64577.771676.184618@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <200802201427.36288.vladimir@codesourcery.com> <18371.25340.162317.39030@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> <20080226005822.GA3346@caradoc.them.org> <18405.58075.425704.501844@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <18405.58075.425704.501844@kahikatea.snap.net.nz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-12-11) X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2008-03/txt/msg00342.txt.bz2 On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 04:55:55PM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote: > With non-stop mode there will presumably be many new MI commands. Providing > the same functionality in CLI duplicates a lot of effort. Perhaps the parsing > of MI and CLI arguments should be unified. I don't think there will be many new commands and the user model is probably different - the logical way to expose things to a front end and to an end user may not be the same. In any case, an argv version of the CLI command interface is something I've wanted for a long time, but it's a lot of work. -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery