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Re: MI handshaking
- From: "Alain Magloire" <alain at qnx dot com>
- To: bob at brasko dot net (Bob Rossi)
- Cc: eliz at gnu dot org (Eli Zaretskii), cagney at gnu dot org (Andrew Cagney), alain at qnx dot com, nick at nick dot uklinux dot net, gdb-patches at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Wed, 17 Nov 2004 10:17:57 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: MI handshaking
>
> On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 10:57:33AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > > Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 17:57:30 -0500
> > > From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> > > Cc: Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net>, Nick Roberts <nick@nick.uklinux.net>,
> > > gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
> > >
> > > > =mi-handshake,versions=[mi1,mi2,mi3],stable=[mi2]
> > >
> > > Yes, thanks for the correction with ``=''. But not
> > > ``versions=[mi1,mi2,mi3]'' that's too much and misleading information.
> > >
> > > I think the objective here needs to be to provide as much information as
> > > possible about what version of GDB and MI is running. Hence the:
> > >
> > > version="mi2"
> > >
> > > (where hopefully VERSION version is a member of STABLE :-)
> >
> > We've been through this discussion, and the only suggestion that
> > brought a consensus was to print all the supported MI versions, not
> > just one. Let's not reopen that discussion again, even if the result
> > looks ``too much and misleading''. (Why ``misleading'', btw?)
>
> Yeah, anyways it doesn't really matter for now. GDB only supports one
> version, and I have a feeling it will stay that way for a long time.
>
sigh ... sorry for being dense (hopefully this will not be a long thread)
but why are you keep on saying: "GDB only supports one version"
for example, I have gdb-6.1.x and I can start
# gdb -i mi1
# gdb -i mi2
# gdb -i mi3
that it is more then one version?