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Re: MI interface


Does that mean that all people developing a gui right now should switch to
gdb v5.1.1?

PRASHANT
----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Seitz" <keiths@redhat.com>
To: "Arjan van Dijk" <a.vandijk@phys.uu.nl>
Cc: "Piyush Deva" <fulcrum1@onlysmart.com>; <gdb@sources.redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, September 18, 2002 9:35 PM
Subject: Re: MI interface


> On Wed, 18 Sep 2002, Arjan van Dijk wrote:
>
> > >Why does gdb redirect the stdout to itself? I mean due to this all
programs
> >
> > and I would like to know too!
>
>
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>
> Basically the problem is that in order for this to work on a native
> target, that target must be async. Right now there are no async native
> targets. I hope to correct that when I've got some more cycles.
>
> This is still a very, very tricky situation, though. While many programs
> will work with just this target output, I would suspect that many
> applications simply won't work (well) this way. Imagine trying to debug
> emacs or vi -- the developer is almost certainly going to want to use a
> separate tty for the inferior. Unless the UI developer is willing (or
> crazy enough) to implement a terminal emulator in the IDE/GUI, these more
> sophisticated programs just aren't going to work properly.
>
> Keith


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