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Re: MI: asynchronous operation details
> From: Vladimir Prus <ghost@cs.msu.su>
> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 15:20:23 +0300
>
> why do I ever want to issue commands while inferior is running? For
> which kind of commands is that useful?
It would be useful for commands that do not access the running
inferior. Simple examples include `help' commands. Less trivial
examples include commands that consult the symbol tables. Really
tricky commands would be useful if and when GDB supports debugging
more than one program--you could examine data in one program while the
other one runs.
But, as Daniel points out, for now this is just an infrastructure that
still awaits to be used.