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From: Joel Brobecker <brobecker@adacore.com>
To: Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>
Cc: andre <apoenitz@t-online.de>, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Test no =breakpoint-modified is emitted for modifications from MI commands
Date: Sat, 08 Feb 2014 13:15:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140208131533.GN5485@adacore.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <52F5A67A.7010301@codesourcery.com>

> > One other possible option: Add a new option that would be available
> > to all commands to disable notifications related to the command being
> > executed. That way, FE could use it to reduce unnecessary back-chatter.
> 
> That is what I am thinking about.
> 
> > I don't really like that option, though, as it would require a certain
> > transition period.
> 
> What do you mean by "transition period"?  We can make use of
> "-list-features" to tell FE that FE can disable/enable MI notifications
> through a certain command.

The issue is people using older versions of an FE with a newer version
of GDB. For those, their FE wouldn't know about the new option and
thus get the notifications that they might not expect.

I don't know if we need to be concerned about this sort of compatibility
or not...

-- 
Joel


  reply	other threads:[~2014-02-08 13:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-01-24  7:48 Yao Qi
2014-02-06 12:38 ` Yao Qi
2014-02-06 20:39   ` andre
2014-02-07  9:14     ` Yao Qi
2014-02-07 16:12       ` andre
2014-02-08  3:18         ` Joel Brobecker
2014-02-08  3:39           ` Yao Qi
2014-02-08 13:15             ` Joel Brobecker [this message]
2014-02-08 14:11               ` andre
2014-02-07 14:04 ` Pedro Alves
2014-02-08  1:49   ` Yao Qi

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