GDB/MI how to go from the manual info to nuts and bolts...?

[Andrew Cagney]

Brian Van Straalen wrote:
> 
>   Hello.
> 
>   I'm getting there.
> 
>   It looks like GDB/MI is really meant to be gdb running
> as another process.  Is a users application supposed to
> invoke it from their code with a "system" or "exec" call,
> then interact with it through the stdin and stdout pipes ?

Yes.

>   And what does the "layer below" mean? is there a library
> and include file available to actually link to ?

The MI is implemented using a number of internal calls.  Greatly
simplified those internal calls are the layer below.

	Andrew