Questions about GDB-MI Interface

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Andrew Cagney wrote:

> It was added with much hesitation because there was real concern that 
> once a vaguely looking console mechanism was added, people would try to 
> use it instead of investing the time and resources needed to address the 
> problem of implementing a real console interface.

What was envisioned as a solution for the problem at hand, namely, that 
any decent front-end to GDB must allow the user to type CLI commands?