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Re: Documentation issues


Nick Roberts wrote:

> The manual says:
> 
>                                            The MI execution commands (*note
>     GDB/MI Program Execution::) are always executed asynchronously in
>    non-stop mode.

> That does not appear to be true.  It seems that you need to set target-async
> in this case too.

I don't think you can enable non-stop mode if async is not enabled, ever.

> Many MI commands accept the options "--thread" and "--frame" now but I can see
> no mention of this in the manual.
> 
> The MI commands "-exec-interrupt" and "-exec-continue" accept "--all" and this
> is not mentioned either.
> 
> In MI, the async record *stopped always generates a "stopped-threads" field
> but this is neither described nor displayed any of the examples showing
> *stopped output in the manual.

This all is in the works and will be submitted, together with a bunch of multi-process
MI changes, next week.

- Volodya







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