RE: [PATCH v2 00/25] Towards great frontend GDB consoles

Marc Khouzam
2016-03-21T17:43:11Z

> From: Pedro Alves [palves@redhat.com]
> Sent: March 21, 2016 1:02 PM
> To: Eli Zaretskii
> Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org; Marc Khouzam
> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/25] Towards great frontend GDB consoles
>
> On 03/21/2016 04:34 PM, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> >> Cc: Marc Khouzam <marc.khouzam@ericsson.com>
> >> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2016 15:20:50 +0000
> >>
> >> Add new command to create extra console/mi UI channels
> >> Add command to list UIs
> >
> > Are these commands intended to remain undocumented?
>
> No, they'll absolutely be documented. I haven't managed to write
> them documentation yet, as well as ChangeLogs, etc. Sorry about that.
>
> The current state of the series is that I think it works correctly and
> that the exposed command is about what GDB should be exposing. But experience
> with integrating it with frontends may prove otherwise. :-) So I'm
> posting this to both try to get frontends to experiment with implementing
> support for it, and collecting feedback from the GDB side as well. At least
> support in Eclipse is actively being worked on, though I'd think it
> great if other frontends learned to use this as well.

Sorry I haven't provide feedback yet.
I was able to demo this feature at EclipseCon and, as expected, the reaction
was very positive. This is something we've been wanting for many years.

There are some things to workout at the frontend level which should not
impact the feature from a GDB perspective. But there were a couple of
small issues with GDB itself. I will install the new series and confirm
if those issues are still present or not and will communicate back.

Thanks!

Marc