Re: vast numbers of unimplemented MI commands.

[Andrew Cagney <ac131313@redhat.com>]

> Bob Rossi writes:
>  > Hi,
>  > 
>  > I just was looking through the MI commands. Many of them in mi-cmds.c
>  > are unimplemented. Is this how 6.0 will be released? or will most of
>  > them get implemented first?
>  > 
> 
> The set of MI commands was decided before there really was any GUI
> using them. We thought it would be a reasonable set of commands that
> would allow a GUI to do what it needed. We decided to implement them
> as the need would arise. It turned out in reality that not all those
> commands were necessary.
> 
>  > Also, how does eclipse interface with MI if so many commands are
>  > missing? For example, -file-list-exec-source-files returns all of the
>  > source files that the inferior is made up of. Does eclipse just not give
>  > the user this info, or would it parse the CLI output?
>  > 
> 
> I am not sure what Eclipse does in this case. You can look at the
> debugger plugin code at http://www.eclipse.org/cdt. I suspect that
> that information may come from some other part of the Eclipse IDE.
> 
>  > I am bringing this up because I plan on starting my own MI integration
>  > and ran into this problem. I would be willing to help implement any of
>  > these missing commands, but I was just wondering if there is any
>  > incentive on the GDB team to finish off the task.
>  > 
> 
> since
> 6.0 will happen in a week or so.

Hopefully less than that.

Andrew