Re: (a?)synchronous stepping commands in gdb MI, a week later

Andrew Cagney
2004-11-29T15:45:01Z

Konstantin Karganov wrote:
> Sorry for the repeat...
>
> Does anyone know why the "-exec-*" commands family in GDB MI is
> declared asynchronous but in fact behaves synchronously (blocking the
> interface until the execution completes)?
>
> Thank you.

Asynchronous behavior depends on an asynchronous backend. At present
only ``target async-remote'' is asynchronous (and then there's doubt
that it still works), hence the behavior you're seeing.

Andrew