Re: How about remote MI?

[teawater <teawater@gmail.com>]

On 7/15/06, Nick Roberts <nickrob@snap.net.nz> wrote:
>  > In May, I release GDBRUI(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdbrui/) that
>  > is an interpreter to make GDB can be controlled by the other programe
>  > through TCP. But some people ask me why not extend MI to support TCP.
>  > Now, I think this idea is cool. Does GDB MI support TCP? Maybe I can
>  > extend MI to support TCP. How do you think about it?
>
> gdbserver supports TCP.  You can control a remote program using MI and
> gdbserver.  MI is a formal interface for use by front ends.  I'm not sure that
> gdbrui, as you describe it, fills the same role
>

MI is an interpreter.
GDBRUI is an interpreter too.
interps.c

>  > BTW, I am trying to make vim2gdb (An vim plug-in to make vim can debug
>  > code through GDB. It use GDBRUI in before.) support MI. But the MI
>  > output format is not very easy to parse. Could some people recommend a
>  > programe or example that parse the MI output for me? If not, I think I
>  > will use lex to parse it.
>
> I think the idea is that the front end parses it directly.  Generating an
> intermediate langusage just adds to the complexity.  If you think MI can
> be improved then please make suggestions.

My means is that I need parse MI output in other programe.

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