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Re: RFA: Remove unused synchronous code
- To: Todd Whitesel <toddpw at best dot com>
- Subject: Re: RFA: Remove unused synchronous code
- From: Elena Zannoni <ezannoni at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2001 10:04:59 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: jtc at redback dot com, fnasser at cygnus dot com, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <5m8zpzkeir.fsf@jtc.redback.com><200103211008.CAA09266@shell17.ba.best.com>
Todd Whitesel writes:
> > Not so fast. There was some issue, I think related to stopping the
> > inferior, that I reported shortly after the async loop as made the
> > default. I believe the fix was grotty enough that we (redback) were
> > forced to go back to using the synchronous loop.
> >
> > I'll try to look up the details sometime later today.
>
I missed this one somehow. Did JT post this?
Ok, one more argument to keep the code there a while longer.
> Whatever came of this?
>
> FWIW the Wind River patches to GDB still use the sync loop, but only because
> I have not gotten around to moving my command_loop/command_line_input patches
> over to the async versions of those functions. I also have to ditch my async
> patches for the official ones, but that's a separate issue.
>
OK, so yes, it's still a little early to complete the migration to async.
Elena
> Todd Whitesel
> toddpw @ best.com
>