GDB/MI (Was: Embedded development)

[jbb]

On Wednesday 14 September 2005 19:16, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 September 2005 21:07, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> > On Tuesday 13 September 2005 11:36, Roberto Raggi wrote:
> > > A couple of years ago I wrote a simple GDB/MI analyzer and Alexander
> > > implemented a simple debugger with it. Unfortunatly he deleted the
> > > Debugger :-)
> >
> > Yeah, I suck a lot :)
> >
> > > maybe we can use this experience to re*design/develop* it
> > > Alexander?, Vladimir? John? :-)
> >
> > I did it once, I can do it again. I can write a simple mi implementation
> > again for KDevelop4. Unfortunately, I will not do that in September, I
> > have too much work :( (only 3 working days at university, but all other
> > days are spent to prepare for lectures/etc.)
>
> I'd just suggest we don't try to redevelop the debugger from stratch. Most
> of the complexity is not in gdb interaction so any changes to gdb
> interaction will have to use current GUI.


Agreed. I would think that the parser and the controller would need to be 
reworked. Although there will be some tendrills elsewhere, (frame stack, 
breakpoints) but only in terms of the data used.

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