Re: [RFA] set debug mi

[Michael Snyder <Michael dot Snyder at access-company dot com>]

On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:42 -0700, Jason Molenda wrote:
> On Apr 11, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Michael Snyder wrote:
> 
> > Anybody think this is useful?
> 
> We do something similar at Apple but we have our front-end program  
> deal with it.  The UI has a preference to save the mi log to a file;  
> it saves all communication between gdb and the FE to that file.  It's  
> invaluable for debugging bug reports - it's invariably the first thing  
> we ask for when someone reports a bug against our debugger.  Besides  
> pointing the finger at either gdb or the front-end it has the benefit  
> of showing exactly what commands were sent to the debugger, instead of  
> relying on the user's memory of the same.
> 
> I think the approach of having all I/O between the debugger and the FE  
> saved is superior but having something like this built in to gdb could  
> be helpful for people who can't do that easily in the FE.

Eclipse also has a similar option.  I just thought it might be
handy to have the facility on the gdb end as well.  By obvious
analogy with "debug remote".