starting gdb/mi from FE

[Nick Roberts]

 > Nick, could you explain why the restart is a problem?  The time GDB
 > takes to reject an interpreter doesn't seem too bad.  I don't want to
 > optimize the wrong thing.

It's just more complicated to handle and I can see no advantage.  With Emacs,
compare M-x gdb and mistyping a CLI command to M-x gdb and giving gdb an
unrecognised option.
 
 > ...
 > I thought there already was a "set interp", but it seems I was
 > mistaken.

I think Apple have such a command but have not ported it back to FSF GDB

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Nick                                           http://www.inet.net.nz/~nickrob