From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 1916 invoked by alias); 10 Jan 2010 21:09:16 -0000 Received: (qmail 1902 invoked by uid 22791); 10 Jan 2010 21:09:16 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SPF_PASS X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mail.codesourcery.com (HELO mail.codesourcery.com) (38.113.113.100) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:09:12 +0000 Received: (qmail 891 invoked from network); 10 Jan 2010 21:09:10 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO caradoc.them.org) (dan@127.0.0.2) by mail.codesourcery.com with ESMTPA; 10 Jan 2010 21:09:10 -0000 Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:09:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Dave Korn Cc: Vladimir Prus , gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: Turnaround upgrade in mi2 Message-ID: <20100110210902.GA5665@caradoc.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Korn , Vladimir Prus , gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <5e81cb501001100803m2102dadek49c4f740d0af4d77@mail.gmail.com> <4B4A1DAA.1030006@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4B4A1DAA.1030006@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2010-01/txt/msg00098.txt.bz2 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