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Re: MI handshaking
- From: Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>
- To: Jim Ingham <jingham at apple dot com>
- Cc: Alain Magloire <alain at qnx dot com>, Eli Zaretskii <eliz at gnu dot org>,Andrew Cagney <cagney at gnu dot org>, nick at nick dot uklinux dot net,gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 4 Jan 2005 20:53:23 -0500
- Subject: Re: MI handshaking
- References: <20041117173205.GA5350@white> <200411180135.UAA14730@smtp.ott.qnx.com> <20041119192313.GA2202@white> <20050105013617.GB25675@white> <AFDD082F-6704-4739-A49F-C41A86D2050A@apple.com>
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 05:50:41PM -0800, Jim Ingham wrote:
>
> On Jan 4, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Bob Rossi wrote:
>
> >>
> >>I've been very busy, so sorry about the delay.
> >>
> >>I'll look into what we discussed here and come up with something that
> >>fits all the new needs. Does Jim care about any of this?
>
> I didn't see this question in the original note. The answer is we
> always ship the Developer Tools as a whole package, which includes
> Xcode & gdb, and just ask for the mi version we know it supports
> explicitly. We don't support taking one version of gdb & using it
> under an older or newer version of Xcode. I don't see any plans for us
> to separate the two in the forseeable future. So while I do care about
> this in an abstract sort of way, I can't see us using it.
>
>
> >
> >Sorry about the delay.
> >
> >I plan on getting at least this patch into GDB. So, to recap, I neede
> >to add
> >a new mi-command that would output all of the info discovered during
> >the
> >handshaking phase. Is there anything else that needs to be added?
> >
>
> Xcode does use the "does this command exist" mi command Jason mentioned
> in a few places. This was more for the convenience of the Xcode
> developers - so they could ask me to implement a command, then sketch
> out the implementation right away without having to wait for me to
> implement it. That is the level of handshaking that we do.
Thanks for the info, that sounds usefull. Is it available?
Thanks,
Bob Rossi