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Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2004 18:13:00 -0000
From: 'Bob Rossi' <bob@brasko.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: probing GDB for MI versions
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On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 10:36:45AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2004 18:42:30 -0400
> > From: 'Bob Rossi' <bob@brasko.net>
> > Cc: Dave Korn <dk@artimi.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> >    * Have GDB output it's last stable version of MI as the first thing
> >      it outputs (subset of case above)
> 
> Will this solution be satisfactory for you?  That is, when invoked
> with the -interpreter=mi<N> command-line switch, GDB will print the
> last stable version of the MI protocol it supports.  This is actually
> the way many protocol negotiations start, and I don't see why we
> shouldn't behave the same.
> 
> Note that a front end which wants to support older GDB versions will
> need to have a database of MI versions referenced by GDB versions,
> because the old GDB versions will not print the MI version.
> 
> Are there any disadvantages to this solution?

Sorry for the delay, I am waiting on the answer for these questions
   http://sources.redhat.com/ml/gdb/2004-10/msg00267.html
before I can say if this will be OK for me.

Bob Rossi