Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch

Bob Rossi
2006-05-12T19:16:06Z

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 09:27:21PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 10:21:35 -0400
> > From: Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>
> > Cc: gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> >
> > I'm not sure if it helps to think of things in terms of releases in
> > regards to GDB/MI. Unfortunatly, many distros package a CVS release of
> > GDB. So, any given snapshot of GDB could have this feature or not.
>
> People who use GDB snapshots are on their own when some feature
> evolves during development. So I'm not bothered by this.

Please please don't say this. It's just not a practical statement to
make. Many of the distrobutions use CVS snapshots.

> > However, with that said, Nick posted this:
> >
> > 2005-02-20 Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> >
> > * mi/mi-main.c (captured_mi_execute_command): Use
> > mi_cmd_interpreter_exec.
>
> Thanks for the reference.
>
> > So I believe that's the day when it started working nice. Eli, the real
> > problem is, mi2 is the currently supported protocol, and certain
> > versions of mi2 work and certain version don't, so I'm not sure this is
> > a historical issue.
>
> It's history from the point view of someone who reads the manual with
> your patches: the old behavior is already gone in the GDB version that
> goes with that manual.
>
> > I thought I did, but apparently I was unclear. The next 2 paragraphs
> > were supposed to describe what it's role is now, I'm sorry to see it was
> > written so unclear.
>
> Thanks for the clarifications. I will try to come up with some text
> that adds the necessary information.

Thanks Eli!

Bob Rossi