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Re: [PATCH: gdb/mi + doco] -var-update
On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 03:12:00AM +1200, Nick Roberts wrote:
> > BTW, if it's OK with you, I would prefer that you add new testcases
> > rather than modifying existing ones. Yes, the ones that are there are
> > slightly redundant. But changing what a test case is testing is bad
> > form for long-term results analysis.
>
> OK. I'm not very comfortable with expect, but I'll give it a go.
I have learned a frightening (to me anyway) amount about expect and TCL
lately; bug me with any questions you may have.
> > Now that this patch is in, I believe your current gdb-mi.el will work
> > with CVS GDB. Is that right? If so, could you post it? I promise to
> > look at it promptly.
>
> Yes it does work, but not perfectly (if it did it could go straight into
> the Emacs CVS repository). It has changed quite a lot since last time.
> Unfortunately it still requires Emacs in CVS, but a release is planned.
Confused - I thought we'd decided it belonged with GDB, not with
emacs, because of the GDB version dependencies?
I won't try to second-guess you about this code - my LISP sucks. But
could you explain briefly why you changed from -break-insert to "break"
in some places? Yet at the same time changed from until to
-exec-until...
Anyway, go ahead and check this in.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery, LLC