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Re: [MI] enabling non-stop mode
Nick Roberts wrote:
> > Probably, we can extend this to enable feature that are not MI proper,
> > say:
> >
> > (gdb) -list-features
> > ^done,features=[....,"non-stop",....]
> > (gdb) -enable-feature non-stop
> > ^done
> >
> > The only issue here is that non-stop mode availability in general
> > depends on the target, so maybe we should have a separate commands
> > to list "target" feature and then enable target features?
>
> Why not just use -gdb-set?
>
> maint set linux-async --> set linux-async --> -gdb-set linux-async
> maint set non-stop --> set non-stop --> -gdb-set non-stop
This will now allow the frontend to check if non-stop mode is supported at all.
> I thought the idea of -list-features was to give the frontend a simple means of
> finding out which MI commands a version of Gdb will accept.
Right; not all versions of GDB, and not with all targets, will support non-stop
mode.
> Why would a
> frontend want to do "-disable-feature frozen-varobjs"?
It should not do that, that's why only some of the features will be documented
as user-togglable.
- Volodya