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Re: RFC: MI output during program execution


On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 09:08:56PM +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > From: Jim Ingham <jingham@apple.com>
> > Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2005 10:07:43 -0700
> > 
> > You don't want to run ALL cli commands through the mi command  
> > equivalents because then the output would come out in mi form, not  
> > cli form.
> 
> I thought we wanted to have _both_ CLI and MI style response in this
> case: the CLI response to display in the command buffer, the MI
> response to be caught by the front end in order to change the display
> in other windows.  Am I missing something?

Yes, this sounds nice to me. Currently, querying GDB/MI's state, via an
MI function allows this, without any modifications to GDB/MI. 

Is there any downside to this approach besides possible inefficiency?

Bob Rossi


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