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From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
To: gdb@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: Multiexec MI broke MI compatibility?
Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2010 16:54:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hq27jo$g3a$1@dough.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <t2v87d3b2041004120629nde1ed98btdec46649d6206bb6@mail.gmail.com>

Frederic Riss wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I tried to use the latest GDB CVS version with Eclipse Galileo DSF
> Debug launch, and it failed to launch a debug session. I looked at the
> differences with Fedora's GDB7.0 that works in the same environment
> and found out that the way MI reports threads totally changed. Some
> notifications have changed (eg. thread-group-created became
> thread-group-started),

This change was intended.

> the way to identify thread groups has changed
> (thus breaking the way Eclipse did that query)...

If the change from numeric ids to 'iNNN' broken anything, this is
DSF bug. The strings were *always* documented as opaque.


> All that changed
> with the introduction of Multiexec MI.
> 
> This leads to some questions:
>  - Was that expected?

The change from thread-group-created to thread-group-started was intended.
I don't think Marc raised any concerns about that. I was no aware that
any released DSF version has actual support for multiexec. I am not aware
of any other change from documentated behaviour.

>  - What kind of backward compatibility does the MI interface provide?

It generally should be backward compatible within given MI version (currently 2).


>  - Is there a GUI working with the latest GDB and supporting the
> Multiexec features?

No idea.

- Volodya


  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-13 16:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-12 13:30 Frederic Riss
2010-04-13 16:54 ` Vladimir Prus [this message]
2010-04-13 17:32   ` Marc Khouzam
2010-04-13 19:40     ` Vladimir Prus
2010-04-13 20:33       ` Marc Khouzam
2010-04-14  8:12         ` Frederic Riss
2010-06-04 13:46           ` Marc Khouzam
2010-06-05  5:16             ` Vladimir Prus
2010-06-08  0:36               ` Marc Khouzam
2010-06-21 18:32                 ` Marc Khouzam

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