Aleksandar Ristovski wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> By looking at gdb.mi I have noticed that (unfortunately) the way they are 
> written, they do not allow baseboard files to override mi_* functions.
> 
> gdb.base allows overriding which is great. For example, we override gdb_start 
> and gdb_load. In overriden functions we call default_ versions and then we 
> perform some additional tasks.
> 
> For gdb.mi, that is not possible since mi-support.exp is going to be loaded 
> after baseboard file.
> 
> 
> I would propose the following changes (only one test from gdb.mi is given as an 
> example) and would ask you to, please, comment.
> 
> Changes:
> 
> 1. gdb.exp loads mi-support.exp
> 2. mi-support.exp to "export" overridable functions. By this I mean to have 
> mi_cmd and default_mi_cmd pairs, where mi_cmd calls default_mi_cmd. Baseboard 
> can override mi_cmd (well, it can override anything, but this would be meant to 
> be overriden).
> 3. gdb.mi/* do not load explicitly mi-support.exp
> 
> Something like the diffs attached (I manually removed some things from my diff 
> so the diff may not be patchable, but it should be sufficient to illustrate what 
> am I talking about.
> 

Attached working diff. Comments welcome.

Thanks,

Aleksandar Ristovski
QNX Software Systems