From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 18990 invoked by alias); 8 Oct 2004 11:45:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 18965 invoked from network); 8 Oct 2004 11:45:35 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO balder.inter.net.il) (192.114.186.15) by sourceware.org with SMTP; 8 Oct 2004 11:45:35 -0000 Received: from zaretski (pns03-208-187.inter.net.il [80.230.208.187]) by balder.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.3.7-GR) with ESMTP id DUV42547 (AUTH halo1); Fri, 8 Oct 2004 13:45:13 +0200 (IST) Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 12:41:00 -0000 From: "Eli Zaretskii" To: Bob Rossi Message-ID: <01c4ad2b$Blat.v2.2.2$f25b86a0@zahav.net.il> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 CC: cagney@gnu.org, gdb@sources.redhat.com In-reply-to: <20041008023243.GA15320@white> (message from Bob Rossi on Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:32:43 -0400) Subject: Re: Bob's MI objective Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii References: <416451B0.3060306@gnu.org> <20041006212652.GB13271@white> <20041008023243.GA15320@white> X-SW-Source: 2004-10/txt/msg00251.txt.bz2 > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 22:32:43 -0400 > From: Bob Rossi > > > * I would like to know what GDB's policy is in regards to supporting old > > MI protocols. ( I have received several opposing views on this ) > > A new way to phrase this would be, for a given release of GDB (not a CVS > snapshot), does that release support one MI protocol, or does it support > several MI protocols. The MI protocols need to be tested and stable. The answer to this is that, although the latest stable MI version is probably the most stable version to rely upon, the old MI versions are also supported to the degree that there are tests in the test suite that exercise them. For example, currently there are tests for mi1 although the latest MI version is mi2. Of course, bugs in MI versions other than the latest will probably not be corrected. > > * I would like to ensure that my front end works well with snapshots > > of GDB. I do not want to work with the MI development protocol, I > > just want to work with the last officially supported protocol. > > For CVS snapshots, does GDB only support (tested) the development MI > protocol? or does it support the last stable protocol? or does it > support multiple stable protocols? Again, the answer is that the support guarantee is the same for the CVS versions: whatever the test suite exercises is supported to the same degree.