Re: Queries in MI [was Re: MI usage inside a user-defined commands]

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>]

On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:51:50AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
>  > > The user should be asked:
>  > > 
>  > > Make breakpoint pending on future shared library load? (y or [n])
>  > 
>  > Yes, that does seem like a bug - but how would you perform the query?
> 
> On older versions of GDB (example slightly changed because -interpreter-exec
> and pending breakpoints didn't exist):
> 
> (gdb) 
> quit
> &"quit\n"
> ~"The program is running.  Exit anyway? (y or n) "
> n
> &"Not confirmed.\n"
> ^error,msg="Not confirmed."
> (gdb) 
> 
> which worked as for CLI.  However, presumably this operation is synchronous.
> If MI becomes properly asynchronous then I'm not sure how to do it.  Perhaps
> the the frontend could prepend a token on the input, just as MI already uses
> tokens for output.

I don't know that the MI will ever become _that_ asynchronous - GDB is
single threaded, after all.

But, the above isn't particularly warmth-inducing either.  Or
documented, AFAICT.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
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