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Re: How about remote MI?


Agree with you.

Thanks,
teawater

On 7/17/06, Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> wrote:
On Sat, Jul 15, 2006 at 09:50:54PM +0800, teawater wrote:
> Hi all,
>
>
> In May, I release GDBRUI(http://sourceforge.net/projects/gdbrui/) that
> is an interpreter to make GDB can be controlled by the other programe
> through TCP. But some people ask me why not extend MI to support TCP.
> Now, I think this idea is cool. Does GDB MI support TCP? Maybe I can
> extend MI to support TCP. How do you think about it?

I do not see the point.  GDB/MI talks to a terminal or a pipe.  If you
want to connect that pipe to a TCP socket, GDB doesn't need to know
that it's a socket.

You can use netcat to connect an arbitrary process to a bidirectional TCP
socket.  There's a bunch of other similar tools, too.

--
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery



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