Re: starting gdb/mi from FE

Nick Roberts
2006-06-06T02:03:03Z

> Nick, could you explain why the restart is a problem? The time GDB
> takes to reject an interpreter doesn't seem too bad. I don't want to
> optimize the wrong thing.

It's just more complicated to handle and I can see no advantage. With Emacs,
compare M-x gdb and mistyping a CLI command to M-x gdb and giving gdb an
unrecognised option.

> ...
> I thought there already was a "set interp", but it seems I was
> mistaken.

I think Apple have such a command but have not ported it back to FSF GDB

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