Re: MI3 and async notifications

[Jan Vrany <jan dot vrany at fit dot cvut dot cz>]

On Thu, 2019-06-20 at 11:31 -0400, Simon Marchi wrote:
> 
> Ok, then I understand how ugly it is to try to track the commands and their responses.  I would tend to
> say that it falls in the category "you're not using it the way it was intended to": 

Fair enough :-)

> 
> I am still unsure about emitting events unconditionally.  For example: some frontends want to
> insert "internal" breakpoints, which are breakpoints that are not going to be directly shown to
> users.  They send a -break-insert and decide that the breakpoint which results from this won't be
> propagated to the UI.  But breakpoint async events are propagated to the UI (presumably because
> they originate from the user creating a breakpoint in the CLI).  If GDB now emits an event for
> the -break-insert breakpoint, the frontend can't know right away which future =breakpoint-created
> event it should ignore.  Again, it would need to buffer all =breakpoint-created events until it
> gets the ^done, then let pass through all events except the one that matches the created breakpoint.
> 
Yeah, that would be tricky. 

Okay, it looks I lost this case. That's fine. 

Thanks! 

Jan