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From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
To: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>, gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB/MI async output token field
Date: Sun, 25 May 2014 07:16:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <538198B5.30208@cs.msu.su> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140523011405.GA10166@linux>

On 05/23/2014 05:14 AM, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm slowly working through the GDB/MI output command functionality.
>
> On this page,
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax.html#GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax
>
> The documentation says,
>   Note that for all async output, while the token is allowed by the
>   grammar and may be output by future versions of gdb for select async
>   output messages, it is generally omitted.
>
>   Frontends should treat all async output as reporting general changes in
>   the state of the target and there should be no need to associate async
>   output to any prior command.
>
> I searched through the GDB source code and can't find a single place
> where this occurs.
>
> Does anyone know how to make a token appear in the async record?
> Did older versions do it?
>
> If GDB is not using this feature, I propose we remove this information
> from the manual until we actually need the functionality.

Bob,

such clarification will be good.

- Volodya


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From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
To: gdb@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: GDB/MI async output token field
Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 00:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <538198B5.30208@cs.msu.su> (raw)
Message-ID: <20140526001400.X8YZk65fNPZk5zPvno0Iw0PE1ETz47TiDYN5ggOBIOA@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140523011405.GA10166@linux>

On 05/23/2014 05:14 AM, Bob Rossi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm slowly working through the GDB/MI output command functionality.
>
> On this page,
> https://sourceware.org/gdb/onlinedocs/gdb/GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax.html#GDB_002fMI-Output-Syntax
>
> The documentation says,
>   Note that for all async output, while the token is allowed by the
>   grammar and may be output by future versions of gdb for select async
>   output messages, it is generally omitted.
>
>   Frontends should treat all async output as reporting general changes in
>   the state of the target and there should be no need to associate async
>   output to any prior command.
>
> I searched through the GDB source code and can't find a single place
> where this occurs.
>
> Does anyone know how to make a token appear in the async record?
> Did older versions do it?
>
> If GDB is not using this feature, I propose we remove this information
> from the manual until we actually need the functionality.

Bob,

such clarification will be good.

- Volodya


  reply	other threads:[~2014-05-25  7:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-23  1:13 Bob Rossi
2014-05-25  7:16 ` Vladimir Prus [this message]
2014-05-26  0:14   ` Vladimir Prus
2014-05-28  7:59   ` Bob Rossi
2014-05-29  4:26     ` Bob Rossi
2014-05-29 17:04       ` Vladimir Prus
2014-05-29 19:22         ` Bob Rossi
2014-06-04 20:28           ` Vladimir Prus

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