Re: filtering of commands during async operation

Elena Zannoni
2003-11-06T22:26:08Z

Jim Ingham writes:
> 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.

Exactly, that's why I said that somebody else will be more likely to
do it.

>
> 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...
>

the objc support is in gdb mainline and it has been there for a while.
There are some bugs still, but it was merged.
Are you referring to something else?

Same story for the interpreter stuff which Keith, Andrew and I merged.

I think we went through this before, with the previoius tarball. If
it's too hard a requirement, then let's forget about it. We'll live
with the status quo.

elena

> 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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