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On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 11:34:31AM -0500, Elena Zannoni wrote: > If you have to keep supporting the old gdb, you will need to support > two interfaces to gdb. Unless you are importing MI into > 4.17.gnat.3.14p-1. If you have no control over 4.17.gnat.3.14p-1, and > supporting that is your primary goal, I don't see what FSF gdb can do > to correct that, ie I see two conflicting goals here. Yes, we will continue to support --annotate=2 as well as the MI interface. I'm not sure why you see 2 conflicting goals. Both interfaces can be supported with no problems, after all we're not interested in embedding our code into gdb itself. > > As for the MI issues, I think we'd be willing to move over to the MI > > interface if and when it supports some of the readline style of input. > > About readline, there was a conscious design decision to not provide > it with MI, because the editing capabilities would be implemented at a > different level, in the GUI console, not in gdb. With the interpreter > changes the console becomes now a concrete possibility. BTW, you may > want to take a look at Apple's Project Builder, I don't know what > level of editing they provided with their console. I'm not sure I understand this. How can the stand-alone GUI query gdb for a list of symbol names? For example, I type break m<tab>, and it completes to "main". Unfortunately I don't have access to Apple's Project Builder. Do they offer the source to their debugger? gdb's console is already quite capable, and many people are extremely familiar with it. I think it would be a shame if we have to completely reimplement a console front-end to gdb. - Peter -- Peter D. Kovacs <peter@kovax.org>
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