Re: MI rules

[Bob Rossi <bob at brasko dot net>]

On Sat, Sep 25, 2004 at 12:01:28PM -0700, Jim Ingham wrote:
> I have no strong opposition to this, I just don't see the point.
> 

Jim, I appreciate the time you have spent thinking about this issue for
me. I value the input from someone who has been working with MI for
quite some time. I have several questions for you,

   1. How do you figure out what type of asynchronous MI output command
   you just received is? 

   2. How do you deal with your MI front end dealing with snapshots of
   GDB? For example, it has new asynchronous commands, but the MI version 
   hasn't been bumped yet.


Finally, I want to make an analogy and I would like for someone to tell
me where my thinking went wrong.

   GDB and a leaf collecting hobbyist are best friends. For some odd reason,
   GDB has tons of different kinds of leafs and the hobbyist is just
   getting his collection started. The hobbyist, named Foo, often asks
   GDB for a particular kind of leaf, knowing that GDB has it. Since GDB
   is willing to get rid of some of his collection, he sends to Foo the
   leaf every time. Sometimes, when GDB finds an extra leaf, he sends it to
   Foo, even though Foo didn't ask for it. The only problem is, Foo can not
   figure out what kind of leaf he got, since there are several others
   that look almost exactly like it. So Foo spends a large portion of
   the time guessing what kind of leaf he was just given, even though
   GDB could have just put on the envelope the type of leaf that it
   was. Foo can not understand why GDB is so mysterious about the leafs
   he hands out. The end.

hehe, anyways, I'm interested in hearing how you solve the top two
problems.

Thanks,
Bob Rossi