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From: Alain Magloire <alain@qnx.com>
To: Karganov Konstantin <kostik@ispras.ru>,
	Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: RE: MI usage inside a user-defined commands
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 14:02:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1578FF984ABAD411AFA5000102C4BB5B11595C19@NIMBUS> (raw)


> 
> 
> > The ability to use CLI syntax in MI mode is documented in the manual as
> > an unsupported, transitional feature.
> It is documented, that "MI accepts existing CLI commands" (section 24.4)
> and nothing is said about "unsupported" or "transitional" :)
> 
> > it's not to be used by frontends.
> That is clear, since the output format will be the mess of CLI and MI
> output.
> 


It is also practical, since not all MI Commands are implemented.
So if you want to do something with signals, the backend may not have a
Choice then to fallback to CLI.

Also note that mi2 has -interpreter-exec to allow the use of CLI.
The problem with that is the lost of synchronization state.


             reply	other threads:[~2005-07-06 14:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-07-06 14:02 Alain Magloire [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-07-06 12:31 Karganov Konstantin
2005-07-06 13:14 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-06 13:46   ` Karganov Konstantin
2005-07-06 13:50     ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-06 13:57       ` Karganov Konstantin
2005-07-07 12:21       ` Karganov Konstantin
2005-07-07 13:03         ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-07 14:16           ` Karganov Konstantin
2005-07-07 21:47             ` Nick Roberts
2005-07-06 21:26     ` Nick Roberts
2005-07-06 21:28       ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-07-06 21:41       ` Bob Rossi

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