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Re: RFA: Remove unused synchronous code


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
 > 


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