Re: Multiprocess GDB, formal spec

Stan Shebs
2008-10-31T19:13:39Z

Marc Khouzam wrote:
>> From: Stan Shebs [mailto:stan@codesourcery.com]
>> Sent: Monday, October 20, 2008 11:53 AM
>>
>> I have a set of patches applied to FSF GDB, and it generally
>> works, but there are, uh, some regressions. :-)
>>
>
> Do you think this work will make it to HEAD before March next year?
>
I hope so! I'm down to about three main breakages to fix, and we have a
design decision to make, namely whether to have a single target stack
shared by multiple inferiors, or make multiple instances of the target
stack.
>>> As the multi-process work seems to be progressing quite well, I was
>>> wondering if it was time to
>>> start looking at MI again?
>>>
>>>
>> Yes, now would be a good time. I had to neglect MI due to time
>> constraints on this project, but after people try their hand
>> at juggling
>> a half-dozen programs through the command line, I think an MI
>> alternative is going to get considerable interest all of a sudden. :-)
>>
>
> So does Vladimir and/or yourself have plans for MI to be enhanced
> correspondingly
> by the time this feature makes it into HEAD?
>
Not me, at the moment anyway. It's a little too big to sneak in amongst
my for-pay projects. :-)

Stan