From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30172 invoked by alias); 22 Nov 2005 08:33:33 -0000 Received: (qmail 30165 invoked by uid 22791); 22 Nov 2005 08:33:32 -0000 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from main.gmane.org (HELO ciao.gmane.org) (80.91.229.2) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.31) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:33:28 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1EeTYV-0007p4-Rr for gdb@sources.redhat.com; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:31:11 +0100 Received: from zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su ([158.250.17.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:31:11 +0100 Received: from ghost by zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 09:31:11 +0100 To: gdb@sources.redhat.com From: Vladimir Prus Subject: MI: asynchronous operation details Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:33:00 -0000 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit User-Agent: KNode/0.8.2 X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2005-11/txt/msg00466.txt.bz2 Hi, so, in MI mode if I emit "-exec-continue" gdb starts inferiour and immediately gives me back the prompt, accepting further commands. However, I can't: 1. Understand what commands can meaningfully be issued while the inferior is running. Say, all data read/write commands are likely to produce inconsistent results if inferior is running. 2. Practically figure out which commands can be issued at all. Say, both -data-evaluate-expression and -exec-continue just hang, returning nothing. This is with CVS HEAD. Do I understand correctly that asynchronous MI just don't exist in CVS HEAD, and only command prompt loop is asynchronous? Even if so, and fully asynchronous MI is coming, what's the answer to question (1) above? - Volodya