Re: CLI and GDB/MI documentation patch

Daniel Jacobowitz
2006-05-13T15:46:48Z

On Sun, May 14, 2006 at 09:06:56PM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
> AFAICS the only changes to MI since 6.4 have been to add the fullname field
> to breakpoint related commands and to generate an error record for directly
> entered CLI commands. I think we only need to bump the number when an
> incompatible change change is made that will break existing front ends.

Right. I have at least one such change in mind - I posted about the
mess of quoting and backslash processing on gdb@ some time ago though I
have no idea when I'll have time to get back to it. The asynchronous
changes you've been working with may also require an MI level bump.

> break with the new level). We did start to talk about what changes could be
> made within one level: new commands, extra fields etc which I think we need to
> document so that developers know what to expect. I think at some stage we
> should also document our thoughts changing MI level.

I invite you :-)

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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