Re: Breakpoint commands in MI mode and "backtrace"

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Simon Marchi <simark@simark.ca>
> Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2017 13:51:39 -0400
> 
> It seems like even though we are executing CLI commands, the current interpreter
> and uiout are the MI ones.  I'm always confused by all these data structures, but
> I managed to hack it to work with this:
> 
> diff --git a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> index 0a93e8b54f..bc8e1047c5 100644
> --- a/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> +++ b/gdb/cli/cli-script.c
> @@ -482,7 +482,10 @@ execute_control_command (struct command_line *cmd)
>        {
>  	/* A simple command, execute it and return.  */
>  	std::string new_line = insert_user_defined_cmd_args (cmd->line);
> -	execute_command (&new_line[0], 0);
> +
> +	scoped_restore_interp restorer (INTERP_CONSOLE);
> +	current_interpreter ()->exec (&new_line[0]);
> +
>  	ret = cmd->control_type;
>  	break;
>        }
> 
> Does that work for you?  It might not be the right solution, but it's a start.

This doesn't compile when applied to GDB 8.0 code.  Can the same be
done with the scoped_restore class instead?

In any case, there are more instances of calls to execute_command in
that function, and I guess they all need to be changed like that?

Thanks.