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From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@codesourcery.com>
To: Dave Korn <dave.korn.cygwin@googlemail.com>
Cc: Vladimir Prus <vladimir@codesourcery.com>, gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Turnaround upgrade in mi2
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:09:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100110210902.GA5665@caradoc.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4B4A1DAA.1030006@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:34:18PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>   I have a vague memory that the difference is how asynchronous output from
> the inferior is presented in the output stream, and that the difference was
> enough to make it impossible to unambiguously parse an mi stream without
> knowing which one you were dealing with in advance.  Sorry, I have no
> reference, but I'm sure there was a sane reason, I think it was to do with the
> output format and its parseability, and so it wouldn't have been just because
> new commands were added.

Yes.  There were also some fixes to existing commands, like using a
tuple instead of a list.  It had nothing to do with new commands.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


      reply	other threads:[~2010-01-10 21:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-01-10 16:03 Sean Chen
2010-01-10 17:39 ` Vladimir Prus
2010-01-10 18:17   ` Dave Korn
2010-01-10 21:09     ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]

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