Re: [PATCH] Test no =breakpoint-modified is emitted for modifications from MI commands

[Yao Qi <yao@codesourcery.com>]

On 02/08/2014 11:18 AM, Joel Brobecker wrote:
> If we can allow a certain type of usage without damaging consequences
> for the rest of the operations, why not? Wouldn't it simplify the
> notification mechanism too?
> 

I am not familiar with the internals of FE, such as Eclipse, so hard to
tell change like this can break FE or not, but ...

> Food for thought:
> 
> I think it would be interesting to investigate whether FEs would
> notice if they started receiving those extra notifications. I hope
> the processing would be fast enough that they wouldn't.

... as you said, the investigation to FE should be useful to this
discussion.

> 
> 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.

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Yao (齐尧)