[PATCH] MI and MI2 should have identical behavior on -target-download command
Maxim Grigoriev
maxim@tensilica.com
Tue Aug 21 17:43:00 GMT 2007
>> What behavior do you want for mi3?
I think it's reasonable to make mi2 and mi3 work similarly
on -target-download. At least, until MI3 becomes a default,
and GDB community comes up with a different ideas about it.
I understood Daniel has the same opinion (see the follow-up email).
-- Maxim
Nick Roberts wrote:
> > It fixes a small glitch in GDB MI. MI2 is a default. So
> > MI and MI2 should work identically. The MI2 being set as
> > a default is hard-coded in several places. I think one
> > place was missed:
> >
> > mi/mi-main.c::mi_load_progress().
> >
> > Without this fix, MI "-target-download" command behaves
> > differently on MI versus MI2 not showing loading progress,
> > when "-i=mi2" is used.
> >
> > GDB front-ends developers might want to stick with "-i=mi"
> > assuming they always use a default. It would be a bad idea
> > to force them to use explicit options like "-i=mi2".
>
> What behaviour do you want for mi3?
>
> >...
> > - if (current_interp_named_p (INTERP_MI))
> > + if (current_interp_named_p (INTERP_MI)
> > + || current_interp_named_p (INTERP_MI2))
> > uiout = mi_out_new (2);
> > else if (current_interp_named_p (INTERP_MI1))
> > uiout = mi_out_new (1);
>
>
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