RE: Reverse debugging

Nick Roberts
2009-07-17T02:41:43Z

> So in your case you are dealing with a proper tty?
> For eclipse, we fall in the !from_tty case.

Emacs communicates with GDB through a pseudo-tty. How does Eclipse
do it?

This also seems contrary to what Daniel Jacobowitz has previously told me,
perhaps about Eclipse more generally. CDT has a console and I thought he
assured me that there was interest in developing that functionality.

> Frontends should definetely not be bothered with those queries.
> In my mind, a FE should know what it is doing so if it requests
> an action like 'record stop' it should not be prompted at all.
> This is probably true for any of these queries.
>
> I was originally going to ask Hui always have a !from_tty check,
> but now it seems this would not work for emacs.
>
> Can we check if the default interpreter is MI somehow and in those
> cases not do the query? The idea is that if one uses MI then
> it is not in some user-interactive session.
>
> Just a thought...

That might be a good idea but this request isn't for Emacs on trunk, which has
now migrated fully to GDB/MI, but for the release branch which still uses
annotations. It's just a small request for a slight change to the existing
command "record stop" or, as Hui suggested, adding a special CLI command
to stop recording that doesn't need confirmation.

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