From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 31911 invoked by alias); 20 Oct 2008 15:30:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 31903 invoked by uid 22791); 20 Oct 2008 15:30:40 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from imr1.ericy.com (HELO imr1.ericy.com) (198.24.6.9) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:29:50 +0000 Received: from eusrcmw750.eamcs.ericsson.se (eusrcmw750.exu.ericsson.se [138.85.77.50]) by imr1.ericy.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id m9KFV2jJ019129 for ; Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:31:02 -0500 Received: from ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se ([142.133.1.72]) by eusrcmw750.eamcs.ericsson.se with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.1830); Mon, 20 Oct 2008 10:29:47 -0500 Content-class: urn:content-classes:message MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Re: Multiprocess GDB, formal spec Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2008 15:30:00 -0000 Message-ID: <6D19CA8D71C89C43A057926FE0D4ADAA0653C051@ecamlmw720.eamcs.ericsson.se> From: "Marc Khouzam" To: X-IsSubscribed: yes 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: 2008-10/txt/msg00073.txt.bz2 Hi, (side note, anyone know how I can keep a thread going, when I don't have the original email? Here, I'm trying to reply to http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-08/msg00169.html , but I'm going to end up creating a new thread :-( ) > On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:16:02 Stan Shebs wrote: > The following writeup is a more formal specification for multiprocess GDB.=20 [...] > > * The GDB/MI Interface > [TBD] >=20 > ** Planned limitations of the first version > [...] > The MI interface is not supported. First let me say that I think the proposal (snipped out) is very interesting and I'm looking forward to the GDB version that will implement it :-) Now, as a frontend developer, am I very interested with the MI support for such features. I was just wondering how come there were not more MI details included, considering there was already a post for Multiprocess MI extensions: http://sourceware.org/ml/gdb/2008-06/msg00080.html Furthermore, I find myself in a strange situation where I have been working with a preliminary,=20 non-public version of GDB which has some support for multi-process through MI. This support, will eventually (I believe) makes its way to mainline GDB. But until then, I am not sure where I can discuss/comment on my experience using the 'proposed' MI extensions. Because of the intended use of MI, it greatly benefits from respecting backwards-compatibility, which implies that it would be beneficial to update/modify the multi-process parts of MI, before they are released officially. As the multi-process work seems to be progressing quite well, I was wondering if it was time to=20 start looking at MI again? Thanks Marc