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Re: enable a couple of useful cli commands in async mode.


On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 07:59:55AM +0000, Pedro Alves wrote:
> This is needed to test/develop async with CLI.  The info info command is
> very useful to debug gdb itself, and the interrupt command is needed to be
> able to SIGINT the target.  Without it, the user is trapped in the hole
> of wanting to quit, but gdb complaining "I can't do that Dave" while  the 
> target is running.  "stop" is there already, so I added break too,
> although it doesn't work yet.
> 
> CLI command filtering this way is a gross hack that needs cleaning
> up anyway.  Since noone is using this currently, I went ahead and installed
> as obvious.

I'm confused by your choices.  "stop" is not the command you think it
is.  There's a "stop_command" in breakpoint.c but that's the
DBX-compatibility version of "break".  The command "stop" doesn't
do anything; it's only there for hook-stop.

Also, how can we enable "info"?  That will let you type "info regs"
while the target is running; does something produce a useful error
further down?

"interrupt" makes sense.  In fact I think this is what whoever added
"stop" actually meant to add.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery


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