Re: Questions about GDB-MI Interface

Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-25T18:59:43Z

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:41:07AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >
> >>It was added with much hesitation because there was real concern that
> >>once a vaguely looking console mechanism was added, people would try to
> >>use it instead of investing the time and resources needed to address the
> >>problem of implementing a real console interface.
> >
> >
> >What was envisioned as a solution for the problem at hand, namely, that
> >any decent front-end to GDB must allow the user to type CLI commands?
>
> My best answer is that it was envisioned to be fixed in 2.0. Several
> alternatives were suggested but no decision was made. Apple has has
> since, kind of, made the decision by comming up with a working solution.
>
> Of the alternatives I remember:
>
> - properly wrap the CLI up in an
> MI command (what apple did).
>
> Has problems with query() where
> the CLI wants to prompt back
> to the user.
>
> (apple's solution)
>
> - separate out the CLI from GDB
> and have it as a separate MI
> client

While it's more work, it sounds as if this is closer to the solution
the IBM people are asking for. It'd be a nice modular boundary... do
you think this is feasible?

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Daniel Jacobowitz Carnegie Mellon University
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