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From: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: MI: type prefixes for values
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On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 09:52:46PM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Fri, 17 Feb 2006 14:35:56 -0500
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> > Cc: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
> > 
> > Writing a grammar for it would be difficult-to-impractical.
> 
> It doesn't need to be a formal grammar, just a spec that is accurate
> enough to build a reader.
> 
> MI should have a regular syntax which allows such a spec.  If MI
> doesn't support that, then it misses its main design goal.

I completly disagree. MI has a design spec that allows a FE to parse the
output of GDB. The data that it get's back from GDB is a whole different
story. I expect that data to be useable at best by the front end.

Bob Rossi