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From: Tom Tromey <tromey@redhat.com>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/8] enable target-async
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Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2013 18:42:00 -0000
In-Reply-To: <83k3k9xlrs.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Mon, 29 Jul	2013 21:29:27 +0300")
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>>>>> "Eli" == Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Eli> However, I have a question: what does this change mean for targets
Eli> that don't support target-async?  Do they always get an error message
Eli> when GDB starts?

I don't think they will.

All it will mean is that if the user tries to use the "&" suffix on a
command, like "run &", then he will get an error.

An MI client will still see an error if it tries to set target-async.
This is also no different from today.

Tom