From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4410 invoked by alias); 6 Nov 2003 22:26:08 -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 4402 invoked from network); 6 Nov 2003 22:26:08 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO localhost.redhat.com) (66.30.197.194) by sources.redhat.com with SMTP; 6 Nov 2003 22:26:08 -0000 Received: by localhost.redhat.com (Postfix, from userid 469) id BB3441A4291; Thu, 6 Nov 2003 17:26:07 -0500 (EST) From: Elena Zannoni MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <16298.51839.664458.972148@localhost.redhat.com> Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2003 22:26:00 -0000 To: Jim Ingham Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: filtering of commands during async operation In-Reply-To: <705570EE-109E-11D8-ABD7-000A277A8808@apple.com> References: <1068129153.32379.ezmlm@sources.redhat.com> <1623959A-1080-11D8-ABD7-000A277A8808@apple.com> <16298.41984.648877.777117@localhost.redhat.com> <705570EE-109E-11D8-ABD7-000A277A8808@apple.com> X-SW-Source: 2003-11/txt/msg00059.txt.bz2 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. > >>> > >>> > >> _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- > >> Jim Ingham > >> jingham@apple.com > >> Developer Tools - gdb > >> > _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- > Jim Ingham > jingham@apple.com > Developer Tools - gdb