Re: [RFC] Inferior stop events

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

On Wed, 13 Jun 2001, Keith Seitz wrote:

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> Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2001 13:45:36 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Keith Seitz <keiths@cygnus.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> The next part of my ongoing quest to get information out of gdb:
> inferior_stop events. These events are to inform a UI that the inferior
> has stopped running and why it has stopped.
> 
> I propose to take "enum stop_reason" from infrun.c and move it into
> inferior.h. This enum will be used by both print_stop_reason (which is
> really a cli function) and user interfaces, like Insight. (Pretend I
> didn't say that.)
> 
> It is then my intention to litter infrun.c with event notifications, which
> provide a reason for the stop, and some supplemental info on the stop
> (signal, exit status, breakpoint#, etc).

For the benefit of the GUI-challenged people such as myself: how, if at
all, is this done now?  That is, what does a typical UI for GDB do to
tell the user why did the debuggee stopped?