Re: GDB MI Interface

[Gordon Prieur <Gordon dot Prieur at Sun dot COM>]

Lokesh Kumar wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to use the GDB MI interface to communicate with gdb in the
> backend of my software. Surprisingly, the current information on this
> topic is very less on the web. So I thought of turning to the gdb
> community itself. I had the following questions to ask -
>
> 1. Does the parser for MI output already exists ?
>   

No. You need to write your own.


> 2. Are there some frontends debugger that are using this ? As far as I
> know, the ddd and kdb both use the CLI option.
>   

The NetBeans C/C++ gdb module uses gdb/mi.


> 3. Has there been any documentation on how to use gdb-MI. The current
> documentation is, as they say, like a reference manual.
>   

Chapter 25 of the gdb manual 
(http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_25.html)
describes the interface.

Gordon

> Thanks in advance,
>
> -Lokesh
>
>