Re: asynchronous MI output commands

[Bob Rossi <bob_rossi@cox.net>]

On Sat, May 06, 2006 at 04:03:18PM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
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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?

It would do nothing differently. However, this is an asynchronous
command that appears to be synchronous. I think it's a bug in GDB. I
could be wrong.

Bob Rossi