MI and the prompt

[Robert Rossi]

For the record, my testing shows that this issue does not occur when
using the 'new-ui mi' command line flag.

On Tue, Jan 19, 2021 at 10:31 PM Bob Rossi <bob@brasko.net> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I long time ago I asked the GDB mailing list how to determine if GDB is
> ready
> for another command when using MI. Pedro Alves wrote:
>
>     GDB is ready for input when it prints the MI prompt.  There's one
>     prompt that is already printed after ^running that you should ignore.
>     That's an historical wart.
>
> I recently started to update cgdb to drop annotations and use the new-ui
> command line option. I noticed that i'm no longer seeing that historical
> wart.
>
> Has this been "fixed" in gdb? If so, is there a way to determine which
> versions of gdb have the historical wart, and which ones do not?
>
> Thanks,
> Bob Rossi
>
>