GDB C API -- does such a thing exist?

[Joel Brobecker]

Jan,

> On Fri, 17 Oct 2014 14:02:50 +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> # MI implements only very poor subset of GDB functionality
> # so one has to use '-interpreter-exec console ...' anyway and parse the
> # unparsable text output.
> 
> There is a theoretical suggestion that people should implement into
> GDB anything they miss.  But contributability to GDB is difficult for
> many reasons besides that it is just an additional barrier to write an
> MI client (when one has to write also the MI server along).

My experience of contributing to GDB/MI does not match yours.
When I worked with the IDE team at AdaCore on GDB/MI, they identified
a number of missing failures, and implementation was both easy and
contribution went well.

-- 
Joel