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Re: GDB/MI how to go from the manual info to nuts and bolts...?
- To: Brian Van Straalen <bvstraalen at lbl dot gov>
- Subject: Re: GDB/MI how to go from the manual info to nuts and bolts...?
- From: Andrew Cagney <ac131313 at cygnus dot com>
- Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 00:59:37 +1100
- Cc: gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <39F27F9B.E8AD2F36@lbl.gov> <39F3A8C2.F3CAB1A@cygnus.com> <39F4792F.FD982C97@lbl.gov>
Brian Van Straalen wrote:
>
> Hello.
>
> I'm getting there.
>
> It looks like GDB/MI is really meant to be gdb running
> as another process. Is a users application supposed to
> invoke it from their code with a "system" or "exec" call,
> then interact with it through the stdin and stdout pipes ?
Yes.
> And what does the "layer below" mean? is there a library
> and include file available to actually link to ?
The MI is implemented using a number of internal calls. Greatly
simplified those internal calls are the layer below.
Andrew