Re: filtering of commands during async operation

Jim Ingham
2003-11-06T21:16:11Z

Elena,

On Nov 6, 2003, at 11:41 AM, Elena Zannoni wrote:

> Jim Ingham writes:
>> The all the targets we support in Apple's version of gdb are async -
>> including the Mach-O native target. It took a bunch of mucking around
>> to get it working (and to get things like commands that run the target
>> working). And I am pretty sure that I broke the remote async in the
>> process, however, there were a couple of hacks in there (marked as
>> such
>> in the code) that messed us up and I didn't have the patience at the
>> time to make both work...
>>
>> So I would need to do some clean-up before our code would be ready for
>> submission, but as a proof of concept it might be useful to folks, and
>> in our system it works pretty well.
>>
>
> It seems to have become some kind of a pattern that somebody other
> than Apple is going to merge Apple's changes with the FSF mainline. Is
> there any way to get another snapshot/tarball (like it was done in Dec
> 2001)? Maybe somebody will volunteer, even though this approach is
> suboptimal.
>

We had one brief period where we got a little time to try merging
sources, but that passed without much result, and I don't see us
getting another chance in the near future.

The last time we did a tarball drop it meant that Adam ended up wasting
time merging old ObjC code into the TOT gdb - work which we had already
done on our branch. It would be great not to do that again...

Jim

> elena
>
>
>
>> Jim
>>
>> On Nov 6, 2003, at 6:32 AM, gdb-digest-help@sources.redhat.com wrote:
>>
>>> Whoops. I agree, this is screwed up. I'll just make the fix now, no
>>> need to file a bug report. I am curious, did somebody get async
>>> native to work? So far there is only the remote async target. I do
>>> remember testing this, back 4 years ago, maybe the logic got turned
>>> around at some point.
>>>
>>>
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Jim Ingham
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Developer Tools - gdb