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Re: Turnaround upgrade in mi2

From: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at codesourcery dot com>
To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
Cc: Vladimir Prus <vladimir at codesourcery dot com>, gdb at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:09:07 -0500
Subject: Re: Turnaround upgrade in mi2
References: <5e81cb501001100803m2102dadek49c4f740d0af4d77@mail.gmail.com> <hid390$sir$1@ger.gmane.org> <4B4A1DAA.1030006@gmail.com>

On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 06:34:18PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>   I have a vague memory that the difference is how asynchronous output from
> the inferior is presented in the output stream, and that the difference was
> enough to make it impossible to unambiguously parse an mi stream without
> knowing which one you were dealing with in advance.  Sorry, I have no
> reference, but I'm sure there was a sane reason, I think it was to do with the
> output format and its parseability, and so it wouldn't have been just because
> new commands were added.

Yes.  There were also some fixes to existing commands, like using a
tuple instead of a list.  It had nothing to do with new commands.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery

References:
- Turnaround upgrade in mi2
  - From: Sean Chen
- Re: Turnaround upgrade in mi2
  - From: Vladimir Prus
- Re: Turnaround upgrade in mi2
  - From: Dave Korn

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