Re: Questions about GDB-MI Interface

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow at mvista dot com>]

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 10:41:07AM -0400, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:
> >
> >
> >>It was added with much hesitation because there was real concern that 
> >>once a vaguely looking console mechanism was added, people would try to 
> >>use it instead of investing the time and resources needed to address the 
> >>problem of implementing a real console interface.
> >
> >
> >What was envisioned as a solution for the problem at hand, namely, that 
> >any decent front-end to GDB must allow the user to type CLI commands?
> 
> My best answer is that it was envisioned to be fixed in 2.0.  Several 
> alternatives were suggested but no decision was made.  Apple has has 
> since, kind of, made the decision by comming up with a working solution.
> 
> Of the alternatives I remember:
> 
> 	-	properly wrap the CLI up in an
> 		MI command (what apple did).
> 
> 		Has problems with query() where
> 		the CLI wants to prompt back
> 		to the user.
> 
> 		(apple's solution)
> 
> 	-	separate out the CLI from GDB
> 		and have it as a separate MI
> 		client

While it's more work, it sounds as if this is closer to the solution
the IBM people are asking for.  It'd be a nice modular boundary... do
you think this is feasible?

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Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
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