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Re: GDB GUI

From: nickrob at snap dot net dot nz (Nick Roberts)
To: Marco Menegazzi <mene dot thebear at gmail dot com>
Cc: Sérgio Durigan Júnior <sergiodj at linux dot vnet dot ibm dot com>, gdb at sourceware dot org
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2009 21:10:23 +1300
Subject: Re: GDB GUI
References: <100F84AB-4BCE-427F-9796-3D2162D97DC9@gmail.com> <200911021436.46359.sergiodj@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <0F6AD058-C87F-4E6E-9CA2-0B7F2342AD5E@gmail.com>

 >                  ... but then I ask myself why to use gdb/mi that  
 > returns a more complex output instead of calling directly gdb and  
 > parse the stout to get what I want?

Because, over time, normal GDB output is likely to change in a way that will
break your parser.  In contrast, GDB/MI output shouldn't change in unexpected
ways.

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