Re: asynchronous MI output commands

[Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz>]

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 > Is this considered synchronous or asynchronous? I consider it
 > asynchronous, and I don't have any way to tell that except check to see
 > if the parse tree has nothing but stream messages. What do you think?

Can't you just consider it as output?  What would your parser do differently
if it was classed as one or other?

I think making the output asynchronous just determines how the front end can
interact with GDB, not its content.

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